Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 3

• Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

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  Book, Lessons, Teach

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• Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

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  Thinking, Justice, Asking

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• In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

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  Worry, Silence, Literature

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• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

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  I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

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• Cure for an obsession: get another one.

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  Life, Obsession, Cures

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• Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

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  Talking, Doe, Needs

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• Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

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  Reading, Giving, Places To Go

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• Silence kills scandal.

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  Silence, Scandal

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• The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.

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  Friendship, New Friends, Found

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• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

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  Hero, Winning, Play

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• The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

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  Elderly, Dinner Guests, May

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• Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

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  Work, Melancholy, Pleasure

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• If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

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  Truth, Corners, Ifs

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• I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

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  Money, Return, Love Of Money

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• Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

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  Photography, Misrepresentation, Know How

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• With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

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  Age, Aging, Shameless

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• At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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  Literature, Littles, Thirty

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• A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

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  Life, Needs, Goldfish

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• When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

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  Success, Sleep, Sound Doctrine

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• I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

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  Eating, Hungry

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• Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

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  Time, Effort, Busy

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• Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

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  Age, Eras, Worship

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• Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

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  Moving, Cooking, Furniture

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• A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

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  Smile, Seductive, Dresses

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• Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

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  Disappointment, Reality, Names

  "City Aphorisms: Ninth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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