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Loneliness Quotes by Mason Cooley

9 Loneliness quotes by Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley delivers nine pithy observations on solitude, each laced with his characteristic dry humor. This brief gathering offers a quick taste of his clever take on being alone.

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Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

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Curiosity makes loneliness.

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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

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Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

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Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

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Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

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Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

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Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

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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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