Mason Cooley Quotes
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
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Even boredom has its crises.
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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.