Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 33

• A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

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  Sentimental, Surprise, Aphorism

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• To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

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  Modern, Aphorism, Should

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• By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

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  Commitment, Responsibility, Irony

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• I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

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  Towns, Wealth, Affluent

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• Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

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  Art, Sex, Drug

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• Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

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  Ignorance, Invincible, Infallibility

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• Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

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  Lust, Lechery, Secretive

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• Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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  Guilt, Trifles, Habitual

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• Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

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  Costumes, Adultery, Periods

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• Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

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  Asceticism, Celibacy, Incapacity

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• Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

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  Peculiar, Asceticism, Way

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• Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

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  Problem, Chastity, Treated

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• Cynicism has its own zealots.

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  Cynicism, Zealot

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• Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

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  Enthusiasm, Settling, Enthusiastic

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• Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

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  Believe, Enthusiasm

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• The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

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  Movie, Stars, Sorrow

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• Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

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  Self, Form, Absorption

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• Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

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  Health

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• After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

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  Shrinking, Moments, Grotesque

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• I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

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  People, Minutes, Conversation

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

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  Cameras, Modesty, Youth

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• The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.

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  Advertising, Eros

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• Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

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  Theory, Concern, Discussion

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• For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

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  Towers, Bottles, Gleam

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• Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

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  Drama, Bottles, Endless

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