Mason Cooley Quotes
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151. “Old age likes indecency. It’s a sign of life.”

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152. “Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.”

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153. “Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.”

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154. “Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.”

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155. “Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.”

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156. “Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.”

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157. “Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.”

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158. “Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”

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159. “Reason cannot break out of its own loop.”

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160. “As night falls, every joy glows brighter.”

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161. “Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.”

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162. “Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”

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163. “If “there is no harm in asking,” why guilt and fear when we do so?”

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164. “Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.”

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165. “When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

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166. “Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.”

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167. “Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.”

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168. “In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.”

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169. “When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.”

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170. “Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”

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171. “Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.”

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172. “Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.”

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173. “A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.”

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174. “Wisdom is dead. Long live information.”

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175. “Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.”

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176. “Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”

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177. “A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.”

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178. “If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.”

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179. “An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.”

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180. “The best propaganda omits rather than invents.”

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181. “Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.”

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182. “Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.”

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183. “Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.”

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184. “Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.”

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185. “Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.”

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186. “A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.”

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187. “An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.”

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188. “Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!”

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189. “The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame.”

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190. “A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.”

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191. “My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.”

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192. “Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.”

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193. “Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.”

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194. “In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.”

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195. “Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?”

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196. “Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.”

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197. “In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.”

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198. “The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.”

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199. “With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.”

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200. “I like the old wisdom – puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.”

— Mason Cooley