Mason Cooley Quotes
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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Big business has no party and never shall have.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
