Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 5

• One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

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  Beauty, Children, Said

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• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Moving Forward

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• Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

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  Paraphrase, Quotations

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• Passion cooks. Reason cleans.

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  Passion, Reason, Cooks

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• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

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  Desire, Significant, Significance

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• Later is always my first choice.

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  Procrastination, Choices, Firsts

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• I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

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  Book, Reading, Dieting

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• Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

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  Proof, Conversation, Shows

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• I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

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  Forgiveness, Forgiven, Nevertheless

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• Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

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  Stupid, Power, Communism

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• By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Want

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• Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

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  Lying, Deceit, Consciousness

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• My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

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  Exercise, Lust, Relaxation

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• Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

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  Literature, Innocence, Charming

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• Magic lives in curves, not angles.

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  Curves, Magic, Illusion

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• The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

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  Past, Avant Garde, Stranded

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• Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

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  Humanity, Human Nature, Scoundrels

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• The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

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  Sound, Littles, Infancy

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• Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

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  Bullying, Boredom, Please

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• Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

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  Sacrifice, Ugly, Sacred

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• Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

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  Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

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• Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

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  Strength, Character, Strength Of Character

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• Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

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  Wind, Lust, Company

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• We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

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  Action, Reflexes, Disguise

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• The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

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  Life, Men, Theme

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