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Sorrow Quotes by Mason Cooley

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I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

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Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

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Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

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Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

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Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

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Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

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Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

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When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

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The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

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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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