Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 16

• For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

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  Immaturity, Literature, Defects

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• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

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  Office, Literature, Weak

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• In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

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  Games, Literature, Loser

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• Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

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  Lying, Literature, Path

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• If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

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  Art, Law, Interesting

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• Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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  Confused, Literature, Exhausted

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• Truth usually stammers at first.

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  Truth, Firsts

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• We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

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  Truth, Sometimes

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• Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

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  Life, Waste, Mortality

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• What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

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  Reading, Mind, Body

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• Reading civilized the inner life.

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  Reading, Civilized, Inner Life

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• Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

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  Strong, Hopeful, Able

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• King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

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  Love, Kings, Opera

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• I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

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  Work, Pleasure

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• Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

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  Work, Goodness, Easier

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• Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

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  Work, Firsts, Rescue

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• The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

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  Strong, Friendly, Politics

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• Wit puts politicians at risk.

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  Risk, Politics, Politician

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• The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

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  Inspirational, Blind, Muse

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• Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

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  Expectations, Desire, Action

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• Do as you like--if you know what it is.

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  Action, Knows, Ifs

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• Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

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  Misdeeds

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• Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

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  Congratulations, Self, Blame

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• If the current is right, one can drift to success.

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  Success, Currents, Ifs

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• Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

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  Pain, Names, Ideas

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