Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 54

• Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

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  Book, Reading, Avid

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• If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

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  Reading, Promise, Library

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• The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

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  Reading, Privacy, Aliens

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• Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

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  Book, Reading, Causes

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• Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

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  Reading, Ethos, Pathos

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• I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

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  Dream, Existence, Sentences

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• Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

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  Rooms, Reader

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• Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

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  Writing, Sorrow, Unhappiness

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• Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

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  Sex, Writing, Cruelty

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• Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

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  Love Making, Midst, Description

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• The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

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  Familiar, Invitations

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• The writer considers sayability before anything else.

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• I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

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  Writing, Urgent

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• Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

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  Lying

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• Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

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  Taste, Frivolous

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• The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

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• Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

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  Littles, Reader

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• To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

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  Responsibility, Leaving Me, Persons

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• Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

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  Knowledge, Understand Me, Wells

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• We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

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  Art, Have Faith, Worship

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• The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

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  Art, Inspire, Muse

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• Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

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  Art, Criticism, Critics

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• Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

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  Art, Purpose, Half

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• Art chooses its constraints.

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  Art, Constraints

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• A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

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  Art, Echoes, People

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