Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 23

• Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

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  Truth, Half, Half Truth

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• Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

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  Passion, Anxiety, Lust

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• Laughter scares off lust.

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  Laughter, Lust, Scare

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• Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

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  Guilt, Shame, Form

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• Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

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  Self, Guilt, Self Pity

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• Sensuality takes planning and work.

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  Work, Planning, Sensuality

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• Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

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  Self, Smirk, Crowns

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• Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

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  Special, Common, Misery

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• Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

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  Friends, Vanity

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• If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.

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  Should, Existence, Plans

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

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  Air, Gone, Noses

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• In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

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  Age, Naked, Gone

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• A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

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  Boys, Ambitious, Quiet

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• In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

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  Looks, Appearance, Glances

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• One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

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  Sweet, Dames, Grapes

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• Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

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  Thinking, Different, Pairs

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• Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

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  Jealousy, Safety, Bored

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• I am no longer in love, but I still have my jealousy.

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  Jealousy, Stills

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• In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

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  Art, Dresses

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• Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

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  Representation

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• Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

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  Smile, Past, Faces

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• No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

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  Kitchen, Literature, Chaos

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• Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

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  Dance, Humility, Pride

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• The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

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  Sad, Interesting, Office

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• My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

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  Father, Matriarchy, Patriarch

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