Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 8

• If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

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  Literature, World, Might

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• Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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  Seductive, Melancholy, Ecstasy

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• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

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  Literature, I Have Learned, Exceptional

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

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  Friendship, Funny Love, Sex

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• The prison is the state writ small.

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  Prison, States

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• The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

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  Fall, Doe, Patterns

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• Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

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  Knowledge, Men, Unhappy

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• The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

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  Reality, Absurd, Fortresses

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• Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

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  Genius, Talent, Deck

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• A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

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  Time, Long, Silence

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• Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

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  Selfishness, Doe, Charity

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

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  Letting Go, Wedding, Boredom

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• Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

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  Sweet, Revenge, Revenge Is Sweet

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• Winning means outlasting everyone else.

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  Mean, Winning, Outlasting

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

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  Spring, Cutting, Arrogance

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• In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

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  Labyrinth, Path, Monsters

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• Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

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  People, Magic, Promise

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• To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

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  Style, Literary Style

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• Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

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  Literature, Trouble, Fulfillment

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• Young men preen. Old men scheme.

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  Men, Schemes, Young

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• If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

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  Role Models, Roles, Warning

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• Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!

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  Truth, Rain

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• Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

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  Life, Morning, Awakening

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• Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

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  Life, Blame, Praise

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• Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

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  Garden, Mind, Delight

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