Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 47

• The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

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  Wisdom, Support, Trying

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• I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

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  Wisdom, Riddle, Pun

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• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Simplify

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• At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

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  Giving, Aging, Vistas

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• With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

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  Seductive, Age, Comfort

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• The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

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  Vices, Fancy, Youth

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• With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

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  Mind, Age, Aging

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• The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

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  Growing, Aging, Life Is

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• With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

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  Aging, Mark, Longevity

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• I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

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  Causes, Common, Aging

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• Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

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  Age, Ordinary, Demand

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• As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

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  Passion, Thinking, Aging

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• Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

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  Growth, Age, Decay

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• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

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  Self Questioning, Age, Aging

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• Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

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  Happiness, Risk, Bait

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• The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

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  Happiness, Cheerful, Topics

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• Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

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  Life, Risk, Life Is

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• My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

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  Mind, Cracks, Littles

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• The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

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  Guilty, Intimacy, Separateness

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• When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

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  Expectations, Uncanny, Feels

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• I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.

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  Regret, Apologizing, Blame

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• Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

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  Regret, Self, Painful

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• Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Regret, Inspire

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• I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

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  Book, Reading, Example

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• Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

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  Reading, Library, Theater

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