Mason Cooley Quotes
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.