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Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 14

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Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

Costumes, Lovers, Nudity

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Grieving, Gains, Reputation

"City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

Remember, Forget

"City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

Destiny, Aging, Certain

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

Truth, Vanity, May

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Truth, Phantoms, Truth Is

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

Heart, Mind, Way

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Laughter, Alarms, Sound

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Lonely, Thoughtful, Feeling Alone

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Love, Lust, Sensations

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Heart, Desire, Trying

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

Nice, Hobbies, Literature

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Greed, Lust, Literature

"City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Reading, Writing, Thinking

Reading civilized the inner life.

Reading, Civilized, Inner Life

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

Success, Currents, Ifs

Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

Pain, Names, Ideas

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

Worry, Ordinary, Watches

The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

Honey, Bears, Hard

Boast quietly, with decorum.

Decorum, Boast

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

Giving, Admiration, Narcissism

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Change, Stories, Way

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Happiness, Giving, Together

Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.

Cease

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

Happiness, Lost, Complainers

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