Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 49

• The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

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  Museums, Style, Parody

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• The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

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  Style, Noble, Subjects

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• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

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  Sacrifice, Style, Comfort

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• If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

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  Power, Hem, Influence

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• The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

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  Party, Power, Office

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• Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

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  Nature, Gun, Power

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• The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

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  Power, People, Waiting

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• My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

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  Strength, Weakness, Charitable

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• Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

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  Disappointment, Expectations, Prove

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• We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

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  Disappointment

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• I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

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  Disappointment, Remember, Feels

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• Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

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  Loss, Progress, May

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• My secrets are petty but humiliating.

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  Secret, Humiliating, Petty

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• In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

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  New York, Struggle, Mean

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• New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

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  Art, Sex, New York

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• When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

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  Hope, Home, Self

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• My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

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  Self, Selfishness, Self Absorption

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• Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

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  Smile, Pride, Arrogance

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• Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

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  Serious, Affair, Quarrels

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• Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

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  Self, Would Be, Asceticism

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• The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

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  Smile, Sadness, Teeth

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• Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

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  Struggle, Achievement, Mediocrity

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• In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

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  Beautiful, Ambitious, Body

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• The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

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  Past, Looks, Body

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• Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

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  Morning, Clerks, Daily Life

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