Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 17

• Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

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  Faith, Boredom, Bores

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• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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  Travel, Memorable, Thinking

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• When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

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  Paradox

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• To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

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  God, Humanity, Forget

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• God improvises. Man systematizes.

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  God, Men, Humanity

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• Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

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  Hope, Despair, Cry

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• The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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  Despair, Found, Modernism

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• Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

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  Money, Fame, Conquest

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

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  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

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  Eggs, Perfection, Want

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• Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

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  Travel, Home, Thinking

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• I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

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  Childhood, Joy, Listening

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• Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

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  Leadership, Done

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• Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

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  Death, Goal, Construction

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• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

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  Equality, Facts, Inequality

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• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

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  Intelligence, Isolation, Turns

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• Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

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  Power, Intelligence

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• Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

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  Intelligence, Fright, Predatory

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• Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

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  Respect, Heart, Feelings

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• The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

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  Want, Sentimental, Sentimentality

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• Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

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  Laughter, Tears, May

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

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  Men, Tea, Age

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• After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

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  Ironic, Age, Shy

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• Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

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  Comfort, No Turning Back

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• Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

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  Family, Family Life, Pastime

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