Mason Cooley quotes
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“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
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“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.”
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“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
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“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
-- Mason CooleySource : "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.
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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
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“Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.”
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“A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.”
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“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time”
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“True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.”
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“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”
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“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”
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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
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“The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.”
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“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.”
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“To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.”
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“Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.”
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“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.”
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“After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.”
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“Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.”
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“A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.”
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“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
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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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“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”
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“Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.”
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“Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.”
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“Few artists can afford artistic temperament.”
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“Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”
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“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.”
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“No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.”
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“Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.”
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“Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.”
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“Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.”
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“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
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“Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?”
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“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”
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“After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.”
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“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”
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“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
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“Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.”
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“Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.”
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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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“Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.”
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“Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.”
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