Quotations From MASON COOLEY

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• 1431.

  Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).
• 1432.

  Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).
• 1433.

  Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).
  
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• 1434.

  Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).
  
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• 1435.

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

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).
  
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• 1436.

  Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).
  
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• 1437.

  It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).
  
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• 1438.

  Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).
• 1439.

  Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

  Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).
• 1440.

  The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

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