Quotations From MASON COOLEY

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• 1291.

  Self-esteem is not based on itself.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).
• 1292.

  Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).
• 1293.

  When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).
• 1294.

  The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).
• 1295.

  If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).
  
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• 1296.

  My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).
• 1297.

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

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).
• 1298.

  People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).
  
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• 1299.

  I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).
• 1300.

  To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).
  
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