Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 53

• Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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  Faithful, Fickle, Literature

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• Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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  Looks, Literature, Illness

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• Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

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  Affair, Love Affair, Moodiness

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• Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

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  Mother, Hatred, Surprise

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• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

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  Book, Reading, Past

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• The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

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  Regret, Believe, Past

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

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  Literature, Tone, Moral

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• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

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  Dialect, Literature, Academic

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• Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

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  Ordinary, Hints, Kind

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• Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

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  Back Roads, Scepticism, Credo

  "City Aphorisms: Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

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  Generosity, Refrain, Know How

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• The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

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  Flirting, Greatest Love, Shame

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• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

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  White, Squares, Color

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• Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

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  Drunk, Solitude, Sober

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• Art can make chaos seductive.

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  Art, Seductive, Chaos

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• Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

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  Change, Crime, Accepted

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• Every work of art changes its predecessors.

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  Change, Art, Works Of Art

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• Politicians love change, but of details only.

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  Change, Details, Politician

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• Everything changes as it is written down.

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  Change, Things Change, Written

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• The familiar changes as we cling to it.

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  Change, Familiar

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• Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

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  Change, Mother, Father

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• Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

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  Blind Belief, Literature, Kind

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• The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

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  Sex, Media, Political

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• To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

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  Suicide, Wrong Person, Persons

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• Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

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  Doe, His Love, Return

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