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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. (Mason Cooley)
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. View quote
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Cure for an obsession: get another one. View quote
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows. View quote
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. View quote
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? View quote
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. View quote
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. View quote
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. View quote
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. View quote
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. (Mason Cooley)
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. View quote
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What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. View quote
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. View quote
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The time I kill is killing me. View quote
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof. View quote
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. View quote
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. View quote
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. View quote
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am. View quote
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. (Mason Cooley)
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. View quote
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. View quote
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Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality. View quote
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. View quote
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Mason Cooley

Occupation: American Writer
Born: 1927
Died: July 25, 2002
Quotes count: 245
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