“Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.”
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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.”
“Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.”
“Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.”
“Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.”
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
“Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.”
“Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.”
“Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.”
“Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.”
“The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.”
“A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.”
“Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.”
“Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.”
“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
“A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.”
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
“Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.”