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The desire to be significant casts a pall.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

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Desire, Significant, Significance

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

Mason Cooley
Proof, Conversation, Shows

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Mason Cooley
Stupid, Power, Communism

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Mason Cooley
Ideas, Want, Tact

I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

Mason Cooley
Forgiveness, Forgiven, Nevertheless

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

Mason Cooley
Smile, Sweet, Judgment

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

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Literature, Innocence, Charming

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

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Curves, Magic, Illusion

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Mason Cooley
Lying, Deceit, Consciousness

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

Mason Cooley
Strength, Character, Strength Of Character

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Mason Cooley
Humanity, Human Nature, Scoundrels

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

Mason Cooley
Bullying, Boredom, Please

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

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Sacrifice, Ugly, Sacred

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

Mason Cooley
Romance, Language, Fetish

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

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Wind, Lust, Company

Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

Mason Cooley
Jealousy, Grieving, Envy

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

Mason Cooley
Action, Reflexes, Disguise

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Mason Cooley
Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

Mason Cooley
Sound, Littles, Infancy

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Mason Cooley
Life, Men, Theme

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Mason Cooley
Trust, Men, Lazy

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Mason Cooley
Puritan, Pleasure, Duty

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Mason Cooley
Laughter, Literature, Sometimes
"City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

Mason Cooley
Gullible, Swindlers, Gullibility

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley
Truth, Lying, Silent

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