Talk:Mason Cooley

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 * When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
 * Trust, but look for the exits.
 * Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
 * Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
 * Travelers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
 * In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
 * Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
 * Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
 * Self-pity makes people callous.
 * A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
 * Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
 * Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
 * Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
 * The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
 * Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
 * Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
 * Many try to force the past to change.
 * Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
 * Listening to people keeps them entertained.
 * If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
 * Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
 * An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
 * For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
 * Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
 * A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
 * I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
 * "Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.
 * Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.
 * The madness of love can always be suspended—to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
 * Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
 * Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.