Cooks Quote by Mason Cooley

“The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.”

Mason Cooley

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Cooks Dinner Instance Love Madness Planes Suspended

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The body has a mind of its own.

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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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