Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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Folly always knows the answer.
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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley