Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 32

• Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

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  Running, Desire, Looks

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

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  Desire, Gone, Habit

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• The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

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  Deserve More, Views, Attention

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• Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

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  Unhappiness, Embrace, Treats

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• Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

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  Children, Pain, Unhappiness

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

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  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Prisoner

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• I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

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  Joy, Wish, Unhappiness

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• Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

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  Firsts, Steps, Belief

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• New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

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  New York, Way, Unkind

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• Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

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  New York, Los Angeles, Charm

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• In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

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  New York, Laziness, Collapse

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• I create my social existence by earning and spending.

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  Self, Earning, Social

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• Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

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  Self, People, Satisfaction

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• Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

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  Dwarves, Self, What If

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• Self-analysis always cheats.

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  Self, Analysis, Cheat

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• I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

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  Betrayal, Self, Self Betrayal

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• Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

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  Routine, Fantasy, Daily Life

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• Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

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  Heart, Cruelty, Impulse

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• Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

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  Vices, Boring, Cruelty

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• Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

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  Victory, Defeat, Attentiveness

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• I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

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  Couple, Sacrifice, Self

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• The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

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  Strong, Feelings, Sometimes

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• The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

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  Running, Artist

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• The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

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  Aphorism, Slippery

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• The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

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  Time, Lines, Want

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