Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 40

• What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

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  Destiny, May, Providence

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• The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

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  Eye, Doe, Excess

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• Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

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  Excess, Austerity, Causes

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• To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

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  Advice, Trying, Paradox

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• Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

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  Advice, May, Want

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• Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

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  Air, Rich, Behavior

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• Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

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  Trouble, Prudence, Misdeeds

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• Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

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  Doe, Prudence, Shows

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• In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

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  Important, World, Ethics

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• Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

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  Giving, Luck, Method

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• There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

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  Lines, Affirmation, Yeah

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• The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

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  Theme, Repetition, Autobiography

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• The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies.

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  Baby, Kissing, Bankers

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• Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

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  Children, Parent, Trouble

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• Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

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  Self, Vices, Medication

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• Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

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  Issues, Museums, Joining

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• Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

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  Confused, Romance, Mentor

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• Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

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  Kissing, White, Skins

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• Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

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  Sympathy, Self, Self Pity

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• Self-pity makes people callous.

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  Self, People, Pity

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• I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

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  Sympathy, Father, Silence

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• No one could be the way I remember my father.

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  Father, Way, Remember

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• Disillusionment is not truth.

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  Truth, Disillusionment

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• The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

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  Baby, Ideas, Lovers

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• Enough is ever-receding.

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  Satisfaction, Enough

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