Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 26

• The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

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  Past, Advice, Ignorant

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• A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

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  Funny, Laughing, Would Be

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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

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  Literature, Garbage, Transforming

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• Listening to people keeps them entertained.

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  People, Listening, Literature

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• The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

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  Overcoming, Pleasure, Limitation

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• Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Gone

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• In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

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  Mean, Cities, Wilderness

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• I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

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  Special, Faults, Grudge

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• A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

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  Sex, Dirty, Mind

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• The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

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  Self, Gone, Possibility

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• General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

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  Running, Horse, Example

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• If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

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  Hate, Beggar, Ifs

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• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

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  Exhibitionism, Literature, Modesty

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• Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

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  Powerful, Twenties, Literature

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• Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

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  Literature, Flow, Facts

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• Malice is always authentic and sincere.

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  Literature, Sincere, Malice

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• Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

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  Mind, Lasts, Judgment

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• My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

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  Mind

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• My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

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  Passion, Fire, Literature

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• Never try to leap from a standstill.

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  Trying, Literature, Leap

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• Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

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  Path, Morality, Decorum

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• Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

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  Want, Impulse

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• Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

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  Birthday, Fall, Funeral

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• Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

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  Literature, Young

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• People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

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  Art, Believe, People

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