Mason Cooley Quotes About Literature
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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Malice is always authentic and sincere.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
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