Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 15

• Boast quietly, with decorum.

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  Decorum, Boast

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• Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

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  Giving, Admiration, Narcissism

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• Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

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  Change, Stories, Way

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• The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

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  Happiness, Giving, Together

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• Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.

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  Cease

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• Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

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  Happiness, Lost, Complainers

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• Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

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  Art, Avant Garde, Care

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• Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

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  Book, Modernism, Hard

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• Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

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  Alzheimer's, Progress, Aids

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• If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

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  Rude, Gone, Rudeness

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• Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.

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  Shopping, Authenticity, Abundance

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• Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

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  Cheer, Upset, Three

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• A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

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  Violent, Righteousness, Temper

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• The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

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  Self, Needs, Charming

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• I obey my own commands about as often as others do.

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  Command, My Own

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• Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

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  Commitment, Language, Shallow

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• Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

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  Work

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• Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.

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  Enough, Circumstances, Wells

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• Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

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  Strong, Mean, Simple

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• Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

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  Smile, Promise, Desire

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• All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

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  Power, Imagination, Power Of Imagination

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• Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

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  Rose, Curiosity, Suspense

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• Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

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  Doctrine, Theory

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• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Silence

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• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

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  Ghetto, Roots, Faithful

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