Mason Cooley Quotes
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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Folly always knows the answer.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.