Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 11

• I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

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  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

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• Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

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  Firsts, Sin, Slips

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• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

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  Knives, May, Retreat

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• Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

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  Dream, Facts, Scholarship

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• Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi.

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  Dream, Men, Horny

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• After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

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  Revenge, Rejection, Trying

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• The time I kill is killing me.

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  Time, Time Management, Killing

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

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  Loneliness, Views, Housekeeping

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• Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

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  Voice, Criticism, Invited

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• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

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  Innovation, Tradition, Stealing

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• Successful innovations become conventions.

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  Successful, Innovation, Conventions

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• Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

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  Want, Privilege, Victimization

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• Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

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  Harvest

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• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

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  Order, Giving, Comfort

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• The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

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  Mind, Demand, Facts

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

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  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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• The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

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  Beginning Middle And End, Abandoned, Ends

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

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  Stories, Literature, Insult

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• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Literature, Cynicism

  "City Aphorisms". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

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  Blood, Greedy, Thirsty

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• The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

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  Aphorism, Pins, Let Me

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• Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

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  Lying, Lightning, May

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• Rereading, we find a new book.

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  Book, Rereading, New Books

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• Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

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  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Warning

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