Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 51

• Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

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  Law, Remember, Forget

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• Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

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  Heart, Feelings, Tears

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• If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

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  Feelings, Asking, Fifth Amendment

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• Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

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  Feelings, Literature, Sentiments

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• Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

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  Feelings, Dogma, Sentiments

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• No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

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  Loss, Needs, Paradise

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• Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

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  Wicked, Guilt, Thrill

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• My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

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  Witty, Father, Embarrassed

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• A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

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  Cities, Taste, Fastidious

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• Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

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  Change, Ducks, Risk

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• Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

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  Dark, Daylight, Lovers

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• The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

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  Nonsense, Charm

  "City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

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  Self, Solitude, Isolation

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• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

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  Loneliness, Boredom, Sometimes

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• Curiosity makes loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Curiosity

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• Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Self

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• We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

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  Illness, Refuge, Trapped

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• Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

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  Cities, Satire, Born

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• Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

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  Memories, Giving, Literature

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• Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

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  Literature, Moral, Old Fashioned

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• The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

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  Desire, Looks, Literature

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• Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

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  Literature, May

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• Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

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  Criticism, Polemics, Pranks

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• The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

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  Criticism, Culture, Prey

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• Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

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  Criticism, Evidence, Strict

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