Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 2

• Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

  Mason Cooley

  Farewell, Loss

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• In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

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  Character, Describing, My Own

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• We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

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  Change

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• Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

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  Complaining, Complaints, Pastime

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• Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

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  Law, Political, Competition

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• Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Imagination, Desire

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• Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

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  Feelings, My Love For You, Body

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• Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

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  Happiness, Romance, Companionship

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• Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

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  Mind, Logic, Punning

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

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  Depression, Courage, Bipolar

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Demand

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• Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

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  Faces, Mask, Seems

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• Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

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  Excited, Moderation, All Things

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• Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

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  Sincerity, Difficult

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• Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

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  Struggle, Forget, Existence

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• Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

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  Forgiveness, Forgive And Move On, What Is Forgiveness

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• Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

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  Pain, Real, Joy

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• A blocked path also offers guidance.

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  Path, Guidance, Blocked

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• The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Significance

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• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

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  Writing, Solitude, Reader

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• Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

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  Waiting, Oblivion, Threatening

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• Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

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  Love, Hate, Facts

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• Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

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  Mistake, Literature, Originality

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• To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.

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  Waiting, Laziness, Circumstances

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• Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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  Being Alone, Blame, Living Alone

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