Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 50

• Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

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  Dutch, Painting, Daily Life

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• Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

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  Lying, Vanity, Healthy

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• Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

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  Real, Age, Middle

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• Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

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  Flattery, Please, Fastidious

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• My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

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  Mother, Sadness, Eye

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• My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

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  Mother, Clinging, Wanted

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• My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

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  Father, Age, Ghost

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• If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

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  Nature, Enough, Fortune

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• When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

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  Men, People, Modesty

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• Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

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• Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

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  Baby, Lunch, Laundry

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• The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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  Truth, Landscape Painting, Horizon

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• Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

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  Sublime, Telescopes, Binoculars

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• Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

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  Art, Totems, Lost

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• Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

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  Memorial, Enlightenment, Monument

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• A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

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  Museums, History, Giving

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• Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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  Powerful, Merit, Undefined

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• Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

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  Change, Regret, Celebrate

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• Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.

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  Littles, Obvious, Scholarship

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• Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

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  Wonder, Deconstruction, Critics

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• Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

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  Waiting, Deconstruction, Betray

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• Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.

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  Sex, Someday, Form

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• Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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  Loyalty, Likes, Discourse

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• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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  Moving, Doe, Literature

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• The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

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  Writing, Interesting, Sublime

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