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Cities Quotes by Mason Cooley

11 Cities quotes by Mason Cooley

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Cooley’s witty brevity turns city scenes into punchy observations. These eleven short quotes offer a light‑hearted yet sharp look at the pulse of urban living.

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City wits, country humorists.

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In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

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Satire is born of the cities it denounces.

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Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

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A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

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Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

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A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

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In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

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As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

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New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

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Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

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Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

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