May Quote by Mason Cooley

“After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.”

Mason Cooley

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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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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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