Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 48

• Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

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  Cows, Mystery, Ambiguous

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• The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

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  Mystery, Controversy

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• Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

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  Meaningful

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• Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

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• Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

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  Creativity, Substitutes, Competence

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• Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

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  Love, Thinking, Important

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• Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

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  Love, Sorrow, Sorrow Love

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• When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

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  Love, Money, Nice

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• All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

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  Love, Art, History And Art

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• Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

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  Love, Grateful, Knowing

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• When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

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  Love, Pedestal, Holes

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• Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

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  Love, Elements, Boast

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• People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

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  Love, Sex, People

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• In love, self-love is always at risk.

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  Love, Self, Risk

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• Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

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  Love, Comedy

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• When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

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  Love, Beloved

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• Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

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  Love, Demand, Obligation

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• The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

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  Love, Dinner, Madness

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• Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

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  Love, Stories, Want

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• Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

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  Love, Song, Heart

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• I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

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  Love, Return, I Can

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• Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

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  Love, Believe, Hands

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• I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

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  Love, Dream, Real

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• Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

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  Passion, Politics, Way

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• Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

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  Passion, Deeds, Ideology

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