Quotes by Mason Cooley

About Mason Cooley:

Mason Cooley is killing me."
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.

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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

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Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

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Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

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Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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

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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

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

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

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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

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

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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

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

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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

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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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Author Bio

  • NameMason Cooley
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • Born1927
  • DiedJuly 25, 2002