59 Quotes & Sayings By Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley is a novelist and screenwriter from Texas. After earning his MFA from USC's School of Cinematic Arts, he went on to become a screenplay writer for television. His latest project, Old Man's War, is a New York Times bestseller and is currently being optioned by Sony Pictures.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce...
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Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully Mason Cooley
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to...
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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley
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Rereading, we find a new book Mason Cooley
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Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Mason Cooley
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Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken. Mason Cooley
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell. Mason Cooley
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Revenge is sweet but not nourishing. Mason Cooley
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. Mason Cooley
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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are Mason Cooley
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. Mason Cooley
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Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
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Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. Mason Cooley
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Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never. Mason Cooley
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An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. Mason Cooley
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Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it. Mason Cooley
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"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. Mason Cooley
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At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough. Mason Cooley
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Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. Mason Cooley
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Magic lives in curves not angles. Mason Cooley
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Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous. Mason Cooley
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Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. Mason Cooley
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With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little. Mason Cooley
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The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. Mason Cooley
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Cure for an obsession: get another one. Mason Cooley
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. Mason Cooley
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. Mason Cooley
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Mason Cooley
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. Mason Cooley
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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. Mason Cooley
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life. Mason Cooley
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. Mason Cooley
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. Mason Cooley
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The time I kill is killing me. Mason Cooley
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. Mason Cooley
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. Mason Cooley
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. Mason Cooley
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Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. Mason Cooley
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Even cats grow lonely and anxious. Mason Cooley
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. Mason Cooley
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. Mason Cooley
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. Mason Cooley
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. Mason Cooley
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. Mason Cooley
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. Mason Cooley
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. Mason Cooley
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. Mason Cooley
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. Mason Cooley
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Money: power at its most liquid. Mason Cooley
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. Mason Cooley
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. Mason Cooley
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. Mason Cooley
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. Mason Cooley
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. Mason Cooley
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. Mason Cooley
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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. Mason Cooley