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Quotations of selected author
Mason Cooley
1. "Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends."
categories: Egoism
2. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Happiness -:- Memory -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
3. "We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Truth and Falsity
4. "Trust, but look for the exits."
categories: Trust
5. "True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do."
source: "City Aphorisms"
6. "Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Life and Death -:- Reality and Imagination
7. "The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty."
categories: Richness and Money
8. "Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee."
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
9. "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Love -:- Pain and Tears
10. "Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life."
categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Richness and Money
11. "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Richness and Money
12. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Love -:- Manners and Ethics -:- Various
13. "Life is the risk we cannot refuse."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Life and Death
14. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
15. "Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
16. "Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Intellect, Judgement
17. "Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies - never."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Various
18. "Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Intellect, Judgement
19. "All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria."
source: "City Aphorisms"
categories: Reality and Imagination
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