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The Great Gatsby
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Mason Cooley Quotes

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

– Mason Cooley

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

– Mason Cooley

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

– Mason Cooley

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

– Mason Cooley

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

– Mason Cooley

A blocked path also offers guidance.

– Mason Cooley

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

– Mason Cooley

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

– Mason Cooley

Sincerity: willingness to spend one’s own money.

– Mason Cooley

Don’t stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

– Mason Cooley

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

– Mason Cooley

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

– Mason Cooley

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

– Mason Cooley

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

– Mason Cooley

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

– Mason Cooley

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother’s hatred still comes as a surprise.

– Mason Cooley

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

– Mason Cooley

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

– Mason Cooley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

– Mason Cooley

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

– Mason Cooley

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

– Mason Cooley

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

– Mason Cooley

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

– Mason Cooley

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

– Mason Cooley

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

– Mason Cooley

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

– Mason Cooley

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

– Mason Cooley

The man in the street is always a stranger.

– Mason Cooley

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

– Mason Cooley

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

– Mason Cooley

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