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Mason Cooley Quotes

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

– Mason Cooley

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

– Mason Cooley

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

– Mason Cooley

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

– Mason Cooley

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

– Mason Cooley

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

– Mason Cooley

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

– Mason Cooley

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

– Mason Cooley

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

– Mason Cooley

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

– Mason Cooley

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

– Mason Cooley

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

– Mason Cooley

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

– Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

– Mason Cooley

Even boredom has its crises.

– Mason Cooley

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

– Mason Cooley

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

– Mason Cooley

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

– Mason Cooley

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

– Mason Cooley

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

– Mason Cooley

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

– Mason Cooley

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

– Mason Cooley

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

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