Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 12

• Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

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  Hope, Despair, Facts

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

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  Character, Emergencies, Faults

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• Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

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  Indifference, Ideology, Hostility

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• Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

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  Comedy, Surface, Profundity

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• Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

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  Literature, Sofas, Ideology

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

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  Kings, Equality, Giving

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• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

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  Life, Broken, Keep Moving

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• The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

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  Real, Secret

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• It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

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  Literature, Interpreting, Observing

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• A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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  Stupid, Literature, Blunt

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• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

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  Reality, Paper, Proof

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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  Retirement, Return, Youth

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• Many try to force the past to change.

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  Change, Past, Trying

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• Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

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  Weed, Flower, Differences

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• I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

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  Self, Borders, Easy

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• Life is what it makes you.

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  Life, Life Is

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• Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

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  Madness, Suspicion

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• The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

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  Burning, Limits, Building

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• Moderation shifts when extremes do.

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  Moderation, Extremes

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• Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

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  Work, Worry, Boredom

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• Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

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  Strength, Teacher, Weakness

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• Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

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  Advice, Ears, Mouths

  "City Aphorisms, Second Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1985.

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

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  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

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  Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

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