94 Mason Cooley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mason Cooley

American Writer

Born: 1927

Died: 2002

About More Never Only People You

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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. Mason Cooley

Conversation Easy Logic Fact Interfering Keep Flow

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. Mason Cooley

Superior Fail Feel Friends Succeed Your Resentful

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. Mason Cooley

You Yourself Others About Like Talk Expect Listen Much

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. Mason Cooley

Love Time Old Young Poets Passing Surprisingly Difference Little

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie. Mason Cooley

God Lie Omnipotent Only No Reason Being Reason

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. Mason Cooley

Ruined Most Forgotten Reputations

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. Mason Cooley

Writing Three Reading Thinking Rules Blends Talking Different Them

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead. Mason Cooley

Critic Delight Dead Mighty

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. Mason Cooley

Youth Free Kicks Horse Remembering Barely

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. Mason Cooley

Imagination Guess Rules Only

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end. Mason Cooley

Thought End Up Conscious

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. Mason Cooley

Pleasure Some Give Like Vice Loves

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

Find Consult Often Impulses Want Cannot Them

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation. Mason Cooley

World Consider Would Reconciliation Might Apologize

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. Mason Cooley

Success Satisfied Could Failures After Ordinary Spectacular

The man in the street is always a stranger. Mason Cooley

Man Always Stranger Street

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. Mason Cooley

Age Youth Lost Mourning Middle Middle Age While

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs. Mason Cooley

Reputation State Runs Affairs Current Behind Current State

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Mason Cooley

Truth Me Failure Happy Books Tell Make Read Forgiven Less

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards. Mason Cooley

Prime Know Until Did Afterwards

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. Mason Cooley

Possible Observe Observing Without Interpret Interpreting

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

Politics Weak Content Office

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. Mason Cooley

Would Disappeared Modesty

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does. Mason Cooley

Kindness Money Everything Almost Does Much

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. Mason Cooley

Friendship Faith Loyalty Bad Likes Discourse

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem. Mason Cooley

You Problem Mirror Solve Trying Stare

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