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Mason Cooley Quotes

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

– Mason Cooley

The only peace is being out of earshot.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

– Mason Cooley

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

– Mason Cooley

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

– Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

– Mason Cooley

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

– Mason Cooley

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

– Mason Cooley

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

– Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

– Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

– Mason Cooley

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

– Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

– Mason Cooley

I love you is the inscription on Pandora’s box.

– Mason Cooley

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

– Mason Cooley

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

– Mason Cooley

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

– Mason Cooley

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

– Mason Cooley

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

– Mason Cooley

I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

– Mason Cooley

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

– Mason Cooley

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

– Mason Cooley

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