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Mason Cooley Quotes


My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Never ask a bore a question.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Orgasm: the genitals sneezing.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.