Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 34

• Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

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  Tests, Capability, Perversion

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• Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

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  Substitution, Depends, Reversal

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• Never lie in writing.

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  Lying, Writing, Never Lie

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• To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

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  Success, Unhappy Childhood, Bored

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• At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

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  Thinking, Tables, Dinner

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• Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

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  Paradox, Contradiction

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• Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

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  Likes, Exit, Paradox

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• The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

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  Rich, Should

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• The rich feel full of merit.

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  Merit, Rich, Feels

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• My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

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  Ambition, Successful, Careers

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• The neuroses parody the virtues.

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  Neurosis, Virtue, Parody

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• A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

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  Giving, Illusion, Enjoy

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• Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

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  Boredom, Neurosis, Cures

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• The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

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  Cat, Thinking, Bankers

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• The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

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  Winning, Nihilism, Negative

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• The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

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  Animal, Looks, Pornography

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• Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.

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  Sex, Safe, Pornography

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• Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

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  Tea, Electric, Pornography

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• Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

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  Break A Leg, Broken, Inspire

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• The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

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  Drama, Tragedy, Littles

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• Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

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  Addiction, Pleasure, Vengeful

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• A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

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  Successful, Littles, Restaurants

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• A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

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  Flower, Doe, Evoke

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• Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

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  Self, Nails, Victim

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• Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

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  Self, Hatred, Sometimes

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