American - Writer | 1927 - 2002
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
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