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I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit. — Mason Cooley
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories. — Mason Cooley
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. — Mason Cooley
The madness of love can always be suspended
to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance. — Mason Cooley
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony. — Mason Cooley
[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart. — Denton Cooley
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore. — Mason Cooley
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate. — Charles Horton Cooley
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. — Mason Cooley
Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot. — Mason Cooley
The best hand always believes in playing by the rules. — Mason Cooley
I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it
perhaps even more. — Mason Cooley
Posterity
the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley
The world needs an enema. — Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. — Mason Cooley
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. — Mason Cooley
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits. — Mason Cooley
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. — Charles Horton Cooley
Like love, grief fades in and out. — Mason Cooley
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface. — Mason Cooley
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. — Mason Cooley
Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew
in the incontestable way that children know things
that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other. — Martha Cooley
Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. — Mason Cooley
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. — Charles Horton Cooley
Hatred observes with more care than love does. — Mason Cooley
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way. — Mason Cooley
Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable. — Mason Cooley
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort. — Mason Cooley
We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness. — Mason Cooley
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension. — Charles Horton Cooley
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does. — Mason Cooley
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee. — Mason Cooley
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough. — Mason Cooley
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues. — Mason Cooley
In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment. — Mason Cooley
I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. — Mason Cooley
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. — Mason Cooley
Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable. — Mason Cooley
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me. — Mason Cooley
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. — Mason Cooley
With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. — Martha Cooley
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. — Mason Cooley
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards. — Mason Cooley
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice. — Mason Cooley
The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness. — Mason Cooley
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness. — Mason Cooley
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it. — Mason Cooley
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley
To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall. — Mason Cooley
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow. — Charles Horton Cooley
The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs. — Mason Cooley
First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing. — Mike Cooley
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. — Mason Cooley
Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures. — Mason Cooley
The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. — Mason Cooley
Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress. — Mason Cooley
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away. — Mason Cooley
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes. — Mason Cooley
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. — Mason Cooley
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. — Mason Cooley
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else. — Mason Cooley
Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. — Mason Cooley
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. — Mason Cooley
Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. — Mason Cooley
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. — Mason Cooley
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. — Charles Horton Cooley
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice. — Mason Cooley
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. — Mason Cooley
Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem. — Mason Cooley
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. — Mason Cooley
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. — Mason Cooley
Thought enables us to see Fate coming. — Mason Cooley
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable. — Mason Cooley
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret. — Mason Cooley
Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate. — Mason Cooley
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life. — Charles Horton Cooley
It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in. — Mason Cooley
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in. — Mason Cooley
Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel. — Mason Cooley
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. — Mason Cooley