Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 28

• The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

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  Smile, Evil, May

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• I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

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  Dream, Heart, Desire

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• As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

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  Desire, World, Empty

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• Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

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  Desire, Want, Yearning

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• Rebuttals never alter desire.

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  Desire, Rebuttal

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• Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

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  Desire, Shame, Stills

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• The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

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  Fashion, Nature, Desire

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• I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

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  Desire, Moles, Beloved

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• Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

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  Desire, Satisfaction

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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  Self, Desire, Way

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• Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

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  Literature

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• First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

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  Literary Theory, Literature, Firsts

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• My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

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  Parent, Sorrow, Solace

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• Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

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  Book, Character, Literature

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• Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

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  Common Sense, Literature, Common

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• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

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  Ambition, Greatness, Soul

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• The man in the street is always a stranger.

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  Men, Stranger, Streets

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• Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

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  Mother, Listening, Literature

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• A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

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  Real, Ideas, Literature

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• Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

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  Doe, Affection, Reproach

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• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

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  Art, Doe, Seducing

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• Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

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  Delight, Literature, Scolding

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• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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  Literature, Eternal Life, Frightening

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• Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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  Events, Literature, Inevitable

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• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

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  Believe, Literature, Lasts

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