Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 13

• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

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  Success, Congratulations, Ordinary

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• Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

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  New Year, Party, Literature

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• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

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  Writing, Creativity, Acting

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• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

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  Forgiving, Dignity, Forget

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• Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

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  Running, Dancing, Romance

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• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

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  Art, Sex, Taken

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• True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

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  Self, Doe, Circumstances

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• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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  Art, Innovation, Imitation

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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• If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

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  Phones, Play Hard, Literature

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• Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

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  Hate, Cat, Pet

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• If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

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  Funny, Dental Work, Ideas

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• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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  Simple, Challenges, Irony

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• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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  Change, Feel Better, Literature

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• The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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  Lonely, Thoughtful, Feeling Alone

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• Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

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  Power, Law, Issues

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• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

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  Love, Lust, Sensations

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• I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

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  Sex, Matter, Literature

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• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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  Language

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• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

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  Yawning

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• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

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  Men, Feelings, Nervous

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• Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

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  Islands, People, Three

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• The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

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  Fate, Luck, Worship

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• Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

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  Costumes, Lovers, Nudity

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

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  Grieving, Gains, Reputation

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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