Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 38

• Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

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  Advice, Flying, Fortune Cookie

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• Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

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  Done, Feels, Maxims

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• An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

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  Doe, Aphorism, Score

  "City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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• The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

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  Confusion, Mastery, Unhappiness

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• Energy falls just short of being joy.

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  Fall, Joy, Energy

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• Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

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  Hero, Fighting, Ironic

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• The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

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  Hero, White, Used

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• Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

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  Hero, Born, Heroines

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• Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

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  Justice, Mercy, Deals

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

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  Opportunity, Luck, Gone

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• A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

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  Opportunity, Needs, Lasts

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• An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

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  Friends, Enemy, Dangerous

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• Jokes are unanswerable objections.

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  Jokes, Objections

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• We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

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  Food, Together, Mouths

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• In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

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  Food, Cities, Strange

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• I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

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  May, Dignity, Forget

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• No dignity without distance.

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  Distance, Dignity

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• Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

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  Pain, Killers, Violence

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• I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

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  Misery, Pleasure

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• I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

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  Pleasure, Pursue

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

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  Gone, Pleasure, Sour

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• People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

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  People, Imagine, Certain

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• Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

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  Pain, Consciousness, Pleasure

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• If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

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  Self, Trying, Pity

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• Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

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  Marriage, Way, Argument

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