“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
Tag: Mason Cooley
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“Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
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“I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989)
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“The lazy manage to keep up with the earth’s rotation just as well as the industrious.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“The older we become, the more certain our future.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection (1988)
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“Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
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“Life is what it makes you.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
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“Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)