Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 19

• The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

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  Depression, Fall, Exhausted

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• When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

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  Trust, Understanding, Would Be

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• I trust you because I need you.

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  Trust, Needs, Need You

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• Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

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  Issues, Cynicism

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

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• Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

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  Country, Power, Cities

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• Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

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  Change, Score, Sophistication

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• Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

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  Jargon, Beard, Robes

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• Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

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  Skills, Spontaneity

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• Keep your lies short and simple.

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  Lying, Simple

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• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

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  Dream, Lying, Reality

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• Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

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  Originality, Eccentricity

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• More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

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  Trouble

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• Our troubles keep us going.

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  Gone, Trouble

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• Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

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  Trouble, Nobody Knows, Avoided

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• Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

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  Dream, Symbolism, Facade

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• Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

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  Fear, Self, Self Control

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• Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

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  Funeral, Gone, Prove

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• As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

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  Children, Adults, Littles

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• I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

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  Worry, Priorities, Firsts

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• The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

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  Happiness, Ordinary, Routine

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• Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

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  Married, Rich, Pleasure

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• Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

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  Literature, Dull, Might

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• The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

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  Passion, Literature, Conflict

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• Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

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  Self, Hatred, Literature

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• Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

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  Mirrors, Trying, Literature

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