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Mason Cooley
American
Writer
Born:
1927
Died:
2002
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Mason Cooley
Wisdom
Age
Walking
Stop
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Mason Cooley
Mind
State
Share
Educated
Common
Information
Body
Folly always knows the answer.
Mason Cooley
Folly
Knows
Answer
Always
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
Time
Me
Money: power at its most liquid.
Mason Cooley
Money
Power
Most
Liquid
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley
Example
Faster
Omit
Others
Statements
Run
Some
General
Horses
Know
Than
Want
Really
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley
Other
Statement
False
Any
Blunt
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley
Time
Food
Amazing
Sex
Thinking
Enough
Enough Time
Out
About
Taken
Sciences
Human
Arts
Race
Create
Human Race
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Mason Cooley
Happiness
Chemistry
Dancing
Running
Shake
Up
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Mason Cooley
Age
Old
Fall
Old Age
Friends
Asleep
Funerals
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
Mason Cooley
Phone
Ringing
Soon
Altogether
Get
Stops
Hard
Play
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley
Sense
Consider
Vulgar
Common
Romantics
Common Sense
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason Cooley
Past
Believe
About
Discontented
Regrets
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley
Love
Few
Could
Affairs
Friendships
Survive
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Mason Cooley
Thoughts
World
Our
Ideas
Around
Enables
Get
Cannot
Us
Reason
Prescribe
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley
Forgiveness
Dignity
Contempt
Forget
Forgive
Express
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
Mason Cooley
Lies
Another
Behind
Appearance
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley
Rest
Thinking
Universe
About
Merely
Over
Read
Been
Handed
Us
Specialists
Now
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason Cooley
History
Word
Will
Every
Critic
He
Outwit
Literary
Believes
Last
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Mason Cooley
Few
Temperament
Afford
Artistic
Artists
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley
First
Only
Came
Refer
Itself
Literary
Literature
Theory
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley
Age
Hurricane
Opera
Passions
Middle
Middle Age
Staid
Loves
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Mason Cooley
Worth
Trouble
More
Than
Often
Fulfillment
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley
Disappointments
Naive
Full
Cynicism
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Mason Cooley
Parents
Approval
Audition
Expect
Children
Now
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Mason Cooley
People
Listening
Entertained
Them
Keeps
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