Mason Cooley Quotes

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• I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger,…
• Rereading, we find a new book.
• I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
• Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
• Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
• Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
• Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
• In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
• Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
• The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.
• In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
• Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
• Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
• Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
• The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
• Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only…
• Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.
• Art can make chaos seductive.

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