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Mason Cooley Quotes about Literature

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

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

Literature, Baffled, Insult

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Mistake, Literature, Originality

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

I Love You, Literature, Pandora's Box

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Literature, Littles, Thirty

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Worry, Silence, Literature

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Imagination, Literature

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Enemy, Literature, Sometimes

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Mind, Information, Literature

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Children, Parent, Literature

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

Literature, Innocence, Charming

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

Laughter, Literature, Sometimes

"City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Self, People, Literature

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Literature, Trouble, Fulfillment

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Elude Us, Literature, Elude

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Literature, About Yourself

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Literature, World, Might

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

Literature, I Have Learned, Exceptional

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Men, Literature

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

Stories, Literature, Insult

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Disappointment, Literature, Cynicism

"City Aphorisms". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Literature, Interpreting, Observing

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Stupid, Literature, Blunt

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Literature, Sofas, Ideology

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

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

New Year, Party, Literature

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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