Top 500 Mason Cooley Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Wisdom is dead. Long live information.”

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

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212. “Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”

— Mason Cooley

213. “Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.”

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214. “The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.”

— Mason Cooley

215. “In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.”

— Mason Cooley

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

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217. “Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.”

— Mason Cooley

218. “Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.”

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

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223. “Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.”

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224. “A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.”

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

226. “Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.”

— Mason Cooley

227. “Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”

— Mason Cooley

228. “Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.”

— Mason Cooley

229. “Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.”

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230. “Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.”

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231. “Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.”

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232. “Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.”

— Mason Cooley

233. “Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”

— Mason Cooley

234. “I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.”

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235. “Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.”

— Mason Cooley

236. “If I can’t serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”

— Mason Cooley

237. “To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.”

— Mason Cooley

238. “Swindlers are notoriously gullible.”

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239. “Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.”

— Mason Cooley

240. “In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.”

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241. “Plato’s Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.”

— Mason Cooley

242. “Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.”

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243. “The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.”

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244. “We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.”

— Mason Cooley

245. “Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.”

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246. “I feel disappointed, but I don’t remember just what I expected.”

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247. “Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.”

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248. “Rereading, we find a new book.”

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249. “Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.”

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250. “Everyone fears and courts his own demon.”

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