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Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 28

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silence is the most intolerable of answers.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Silence, Answers, Silence Is

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

Naps, Rejection, Figures

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

Writing, Thinking, Circles

Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

Thinking, Mind, Sometimes

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

Grateful, Sacrifice, Be Grateful

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Happiness, Drug, Entering

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Dance, Pain, Mines

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

Success, Congratulations, Habit

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Girl, Mom, Daughter

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Money, Kindness, Doe

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Lying, Poverty, Etc

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

People, Civility, Deference

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Satisfied, Comparison

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

Anger, Sorrow, Doe

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

Crush, Anger, Being Ignored

Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

Anger, People, Stalwart

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

Father, Grief, Anger

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Giving Up, Literature, Wit

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Children, Adults, Use

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

Desire, Streets

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Men, Complaining, Literature

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Aphorism

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

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Lonely, People, Flow

"City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Success, Silent, Hollowness

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

Cutting, Machines, Path

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