Mason Cooley quotes - page 10

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly. (Mason Cooley)
Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto. View quote
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. View quote
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. View quote
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. View quote
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If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning. View quote
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Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. View quote
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I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think. View quote
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Every farewell combines loss and new freedom. View quote
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Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are. View quote
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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence. (Mason Cooley)
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. View quote
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King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. View quote
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Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy. View quote
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Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious. View quote
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Health can be squandered, but not stored up. View quote
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When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap. View quote
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth. View quote
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Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma. View quote
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In love as in art, good technique helps. View quote
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