Famous Mason Cooley Quotations

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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
by Mason Cooley
"The only peace is being out of earshot."
by Mason Cooley
"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"
by Mason Cooley
"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."
by Mason Cooley
"Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life."
by Mason Cooley
"Few artists can afford artistic temperament."
by Mason Cooley
"Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over."
by Mason Cooley
"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."
by Mason Cooley
"Money: power at its most liquid."
by Mason Cooley
"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."
by Mason Cooley
"In every death, a busy world comes to an end."
by Mason Cooley
"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting."
by Mason Cooley
"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
by Mason Cooley
"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."
by Mason Cooley
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."
by Mason Cooley
"Art seduces, but does not exploit."
by Mason Cooley
"'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'"
by Mason Cooley
"A blunt statement can be as false as any other."
by Mason Cooley
"A blocked path also offers guidance."
by Mason Cooley
"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."
by Mason Cooley
"A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude."
by Mason Cooley
"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings."
by Mason Cooley
"A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places."
by Mason Cooley
"Affection reproaches, but does not denounce."
by Mason Cooley
"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."
by Mason Cooley
"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means."
by Mason Cooley
"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences."
by Mason Cooley
"An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another."
by Mason Cooley
"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
by Mason Cooley
"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."
by Mason Cooley
"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."
by Mason Cooley
"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it."
by Mason Cooley
"Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children."
by Mason Cooley
"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
by Mason Cooley
"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life."
by Mason Cooley
"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."
by Mason Cooley
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
by Mason Cooley
"Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time."
by Mason Cooley
"Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end."
by Mason Cooley
"Cure for an obsession: get another one."
by Mason Cooley
"Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity."
by Mason Cooley
"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is."
by Mason Cooley
"Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness."
by Mason Cooley
"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
by Mason Cooley
"Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead."
by Mason Cooley
"Documents create a paper reality we call proof."
by Mason Cooley
"Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem."
by Mason Cooley
"Eternity eludes us, even as a thought."
by Mason Cooley
"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed."
by Mason Cooley
"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
by Mason Cooley
"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
by Mason Cooley
"Even cats grow lonely and anxious."
by Mason Cooley
"Even boredom has its crises."
by Mason Cooley
"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."
by Mason Cooley
"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better."
by Mason Cooley
"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful."
by Mason Cooley
"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
by Mason Cooley
"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."
by Mason Cooley
"Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle."
by Mason Cooley
"Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it."
by Mason Cooley
"Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs."
by Mason Cooley
"Fears and lies intensify consciousness."
by Mason Cooley
"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"
by Mason Cooley
"First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory."
by Mason Cooley
"Folly always knows the answer."
by Mason Cooley
"For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect."
by Mason Cooley
"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."
by Mason Cooley
"Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never."
by Mason Cooley
"Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth."
by Mason Cooley
"General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others."
by Mason Cooley
"Good parties create a temporary youthfulness."
by Mason Cooley
"Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise."
by Mason Cooley
"Hatred observes with more care than love does."
by Mason Cooley
"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."
by Mason Cooley
"Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism."
by Mason Cooley
"I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards."
by Mason Cooley
"I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am."
by Mason Cooley
"I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am."
by Mason Cooley
"I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box."
by Mason Cooley
"I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy."
by Mason Cooley
"I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think."
by Mason Cooley
"I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly."
by Mason Cooley
"Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit."
by Mason Cooley
"If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined."
by Mason Cooley
"If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether."
by Mason Cooley
"If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism."
by Mason Cooley
"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."
by Mason Cooley
"If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation."
by Mason Cooley
"If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements."
by Mason Cooley
"If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves."
by Mason Cooley
"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are."
by Mason Cooley
"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
by Mason Cooley
"In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words."
by Mason Cooley
"In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be."
by Mason Cooley
"In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing."
by Mason Cooley
"In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners."
by Mason Cooley
"Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path."
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"Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation."
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"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge."
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"It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting."
by Mason Cooley


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