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Mason Cooley Quotes

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
While there's life, there's fear.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Money: power at its most liquid.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
The passion for money is never fickle.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.