Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 29

• Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

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  Literature

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• We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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  Faults, Virtue, Tied

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• silence is the most intolerable of answers.

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  Silence, Answers, Silence Is

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• When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

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  Naps, Rejection, Figures

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• Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

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  Writing, Thinking, Circles

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• Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

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  Thinking, Mind, Sometimes

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• Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

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  Grateful, Sacrifice, Be Grateful

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• Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

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  Happiness, Drug, Entering

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• Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

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  Dance, Pain, Mines

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• If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

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  Success, Congratulations, Habit

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• Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

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  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

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  Money, Kindness, Doe

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• Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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  Lying, Poverty, Etc

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• People who expect deference resent mere civility.

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  People, Civility, Deference

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• Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

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  Satisfied, Comparison

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• All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

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  Anger, Sorrow, Doe

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• An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

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  Crush, Anger, Being Ignored

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• Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

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  Anger, People, Stalwart

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• I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

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  Father, Grief, Anger

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• Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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  Giving Up, Literature, Wit

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• Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

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  Children, Adults, Use

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• In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

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  Desire, Streets

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• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

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  Men, Complaining, Literature

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• In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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  Aphorism

  "City Aphorisms: Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

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  Lonely, People, Flow

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

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