Mason Cooley Quotes
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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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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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.