Mason Cooley Quotes

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

Simple, Justice, Matter

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

Success, After, Satisfied

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Mason Cooley

Children, Parents, Expect

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Full, Naive, Cynicism

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley

Humor, Move, Rescue

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley

Truth, Simple, Challenge

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
Mason Cooley

Nothing, Journalism, Happening

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

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Mason Cooley

Novel, Sublime, Avoids

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
Mason Cooley

Power, Less, Lying

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

Forget, Forgive, Dignity

A blocked path also offers guidance.
Mason Cooley

Path, Guidance, Blocked

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley

Great, Solitude, Seldom

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Mason Cooley

Happiness, Chemistry, Dancing

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

Time, Sex, Care

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

Long, Enough, Obvious

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

Small, Same, Large

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason Cooley

Bad, Few, Faithful

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley

Desire, Fantasy, Mirrors

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

Might, Apologize, Consider

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

Mind, Body, State

Even boredom has its crises.
Mason Cooley

Boredom, Crises

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

Friends, Succeed, Fail

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Mason Cooley

Lies, Fears, Intensify

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1927

Died: 2002

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