Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 52

• Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

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  Criticism, Purpose, Shapes

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• A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

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  Criticism, Important, Use

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• Self-esteem is not based on itself.

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  Self Esteem, Self, Esteem

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• Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

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  Moving, Commitment, Detachment

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• Commitments, not feelings, hold life together.

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  Commitment, Feelings, Together

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• The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

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  Intellectual, Shock, Businessman

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• Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

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  Bridges, Ideas, Technique

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• Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

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  Science, Purpose, Causes

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• The right time to die is never exactly now.

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  Death, Right Time, Dies

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• Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

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  Death, Promise, Oblivion

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• Only death rescues us from dying.

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  Death, Dying, Rescue

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• Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

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  Friends, Death, Party

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• Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

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  Death, Ifs, Around The Corner

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• Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

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  Death, Beneath The Surface, Surface

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• The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

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  Success, Failure, Wretchedness

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• Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

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  Reality, Way, Sometimes

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• The realism of failure, the romance of success.

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  Reality, Romance, Realism

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• Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

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  Reality, Details, Guarantees

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• The real reality is always just around the corner.

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  Real, Corners, Around The Corner

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• Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

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  Reality, Garden, White

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• The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

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  Real, Facts, Reality

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• In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

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  Winning, Reality, Stories

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• I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

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  Book, Way, Mines

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• Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

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  Book, Meaningless

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• To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

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  Littles, Mysterious, Mystery

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