Mason Cooley Quotes

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason
• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.
• Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
• Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
• Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
• After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
• Money: power at its most liquid.
• Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
• Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.
• Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
• Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.
• If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
• Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
• All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
• An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
• Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

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