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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time ”
― Mason Cooley

“When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.”
― Mason Cooley

“If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”
― Mason Cooley

“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. ”
― Mason Cooley

“Cure for an obsession: get another one.”
― Mason Cooley

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”
― Mason Cooley

“Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?”
― Mason Cooley

“silence is the most intolerable of answers.”
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“Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.”
― Mason Cooley

“Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.”
― Mason Cooley

“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.”
― Mason Cooley

“True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.”
― Mason Cooley

“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”
― Mason Cooley

“Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.”
― Mason Cooley

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
― Mason Cooley

“Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.”
― Mason Cooley

“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”
― Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.”
― Mason Cooley

“Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.”
― Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”
― Mason Cooley

“Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.”
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“ Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”
― Mason Cooley

“After desolation, grief brings back our humanity”
― Mason Cooley

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
― Mason Cooley

“I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me. ”
― Mason Cooley

“Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.”
― Mason Cooley