Mason Cooley Quotes

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

The body has a mind of its own.
Mason Cooley

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Mason Cooley

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
Mason Cooley

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
Mason Cooley

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley Quotes
		Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Year of Birth: 1927 Year of Death: 2002 Nationality: American Amazon: Mason Cooley on Amazon	Related Authors: Napoleon Hill Dale Carnegie Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert A. Heinlein H. L. Mencken Denis Waitley Rick Warren Eric Hoffer Anne Morrow Lindbergh
		Select Mason Cooley Quotations: Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. Mason Cooley The body has a mind of its own. Mason Cooley I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am. Mason Cooley I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think. Mason Cooley Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss. Mason Cooley Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. Mason Cooley
Quote Keywords: Foreigners, Never, Think, Travelers	Dictionary Links: Never, Think	All Mason Cooley Quotations: A blocked path also offers guidance. A blunt statement can be as... A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. A happy arrangement: many people prefer... A real idea keeps changing and... A sense of blessedness comes from... Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. After an argument, silence may mean... After my spectacular failures, I could... Amazing that the human race has... An academic dialect is perfected when... An omnipotent God is the only... Art begins in imitation and ends... Art seduces, but does not exploit. As equality increases, so does the... At sixty, I know little more... Bad faith likes discourse on friendship... Be faithful to your roots' is... Cats are inquisitive, but hate to... Children now expect their parents to... Children use all their wiles to... City people make most of the... Compassion brings us to a stop... Complainers change their complaints, but they never... Conscious thought is the tidying up... Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. Creativity makes a leap, then looks... Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead. Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. Cure for an obsession: get another one. Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. Dancing and running shake up the... Death is frightening, and so is... Documents create a paper reality we... Don't stare into a mirror when... Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. Even boredom has its crises. Even cats grow lonely and anxious. Even the most fickle are faithful... Events are called inevitable only after... Every day begins with an act... Every literary critic believes he will... Excuses change nothing, but make everyone... Expensive advertising courts us with hints... Fail, and your friends feel superior... Faith moves mountains, but you have... Families in which nothing is ever... Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. Fears and lies intensify consciousness. Few artists can afford artistic temperament. Few friendships could survive the moodiness... First literature came to refer only... Flattery and insults raise the same... Folly always knows the answer. For many, immaturity is an ideal... Forgiveness is like faith. You have... Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never. Fulfillment is often more trouble than... General statements omit what we really... Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. Hatred observes with more care than... Hatred of the mother is familiar... Human society sustains itself by transforming nature... Humor does not rescue us from... Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. I did not know I was... I have learned to keep to... I know that I am what... I love you is the inscription... I read less and less. I... I see what you mean, but... I'm being treated like a sex... Ideology has shaped the very sofa... If beggars do not hate the... If I play hard to get... If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. If success is a habit, it... If the world would apologize, I... If we think about the obvious... If you are going to break... If you call failures experiments, you... Imagination has rules, but we can... In bridge clubs and in councils... In every death, a busy world... In love, we worry more about... In psychoanalysis, only the fee is... In the game of love, the... In the street, the gaze of... Innocence is thought charming because it offers... Innocence: I am only stepping on... Irony regards every simple truth as... It is possible to interpret without... Journalism never admits that nothing much... Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty... Kindness eases everything almost as much... Language is the friendliest of the... Listening to people keeps them entertained. Living alone makes it harder to... Logic and fact keep interfering with... Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. Love begins with an image; lust... Lust and greed are more gullible... Lying just for the fun of... Magic trick: to make people disappear... Malice is always authentic and sincere. Many gloat over their own troubles. Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. Middle age went by while I... Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. Minds will wander even during the... Mistakes are the only universal form... Money is to my social existence... Money: power at its most liquid. Moo may represent an idea, but... Most people regard getting their way... Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. My mind is led astray by... My parents wanted me to solace... My passions have never jumped out... My thought has been shaped by... Never ask a bore a question. Never try to leap from a standstill. No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the... Observe decorum, and it will open... Office politics are bloody-minded, but... Often, when I want to consult... Old age: I fall asleep during... Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. Only the broken-hearted know the... Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer... Orgasm: the genitals sneezing. Other people's beliefs may be myths... Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. People believe that photographs are true... People who abhor solitude may abhor... Philosophy likes to keen common sense... Poor but happy is not a... Preserving tradition has become a nice... Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things... Promiscuity is like never reading past... Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature... Rage is exciting, but leaves me... Reality is the name we give... Reason enables us to get around... Reputation runs behind the current state... Rereading, we find a new book. Rescue someone unwilling to look after... Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Romantics consider common sense vulgar. Seeing my malevolent face in the... Self-hatred and self-love are... Self-reform is the only kind... Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust. Some loves are like a vice... Staid middle age loves the hurricane... Stated clearly enough, an idea may... Talk about yourself as much as... Taste refers to the past, imagination... The aim of literary ambition is... The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing... The beloved is the ultimate fetish. The body has a mind of... The discontented believe that their regrets... The doctrine of the immortality of... The educated do not share a... The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. The higher the moral tone, the... The horse stares at its captor... The laughter of the aphorism is... The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. The man in the street is... The man of sensibility is too... The novel avoids the sublime and... The only peace is being out... The passion for money is never fickle. The passions are the same in... The power of lying is much... The ravaged face in the mirror... The real secrets are not the... The sage belongs to the same... The shades of respectability begin to... The time I kill is killing me. The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. There are different rules for reading... Think carefully before asking for justice... Thinking about the universe has now... Three meals plus bedtime make four... To be successful be ahead of... To confer dignity, forgive. To express... To understand a literary style, consider... To understand someone, find out how... Totem poles and wooden masks no... Travelers never think that they are... Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. We are more tied to our... We are prepared for insults, but... Well-behaved: he always speaks as... What lies behind appearance is usually another... When a man bores a woman... When I prayed for success, I... When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. While there's life, there's fear. While we are reading, we are... Who would not give up wit... Why do we never expect dull... Without civilization, we would not turn... Women encourage men to be childish... Worried about being a dull fellow... Writers mean more than they say... Young men preen. Old men scheme. Young poets bewail the passing of...

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