Top 500 Mason Cooley Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”

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252. “As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.”

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253. “I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.”

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254. “Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.”

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255. “The children of childish parents age quickly.”

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256. “Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.”

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257. “The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.”

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258. “Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.”

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259. “Hope likes justification, but can do without.”

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260. “For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.”

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261. “Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.”

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262. “Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.”

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263. “Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.”

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264. “Winning means outlasting everyone else.”

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265. “Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.”

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266. “Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.”

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267. “Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.”

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268. “Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”

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269. “Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.”

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270. “I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.”

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271. “At the dinner table, if you can’t think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don’t throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.”

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272. “Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.”

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273. “Facts do not give advice.”

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274. “Many gloat over their own troubles.”

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275. “Saying “I feel guilty” is a mere form of words. Saying “I feel ashamed” is not.”

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276. “Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

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277. “The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”

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278. “All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.”

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279. “Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.”

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280. “Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.”

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281. “Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.”

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282. “To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.”

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283. “No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.”

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284. “The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.”

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285. “The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.”

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286. “My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.”

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287. “Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.”

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288. “In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.”

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289. “Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.”

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290. “Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.”

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291. “Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.”

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292. “Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.”

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293. “Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.”

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294. “Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.”

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295. “Tolerance is a placid contempt.”

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296. “We understand through resemblance.”

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297. “After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.”

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298. “In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.”

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299. “The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.”

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300. “The same old thing – even if it’s champagne – is still the same old thing.”

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