Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

• If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

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  Reading, Found, Ifs

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• Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

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  Success, Failure, Easier

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• Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

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  Success, Failure, Stills

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• In love as in art, good technique helps.

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  Love, Art, Technique

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• Few things are worth doing perfectly.

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  Perfection

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• Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

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  Fool, Made, Feels

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• Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

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  Thinking, Mystery, Existence

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• We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

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  Mistake, Weakness, Originality

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• Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

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  Conformity, Breathe, Easier

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• As night falls, every joy glows brighter.

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  Fall, Night, Joy

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• People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

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  Self, Order, People

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• I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

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  Self, Somewhere Else, World

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• Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

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  People, Gossip, Dying

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• Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

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  Losing, Chosen

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• Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

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  Self, Giving, Realization

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• Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

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  True Or False, Aphorism, Flats

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

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• Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

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  Tails, Aphorism, Kink

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• Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

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  Wise, Aphorism, Considering

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

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• If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

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  Time, Want, Waste

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• Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

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  Food, Promise, Eating

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• As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

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  Missing, Purpose, Reviews

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• A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.

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  Boredom, Cures

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• One eventually has enough even of oneself.

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  Boredom, Enough, Oneself

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• Living too long exacts a painful price.

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  Long, Age, Painful

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• Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.

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  Ties, Dieting, Asceticism

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