Quote

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Roots
Stay
Liberality
Ghetto
Version
Liberal
Versions
Faithful

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so then your wish will be granted.
Mason Cooley
Image
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Mason Cooley
Image
Complainers detest each other.
Mason Cooley
Image
Do as you like--if you know what it is.
Mason Cooley
Image
Happiness is often hard-hearted.
Mason Cooley
Image
It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.
Mason Cooley
Image
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley
Image
I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
Mason Cooley
Image
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Mason Cooley
Image
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
Mason Cooley
Image
In love as in art, good technique helps.
Mason Cooley
Image
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.
Mason Cooley
Image
Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
Mason Cooley
Image
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
Mason Cooley
Image
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley
Image
Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.
Mason Cooley
Image
Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Mason Cooley
Image
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
Mason Cooley
Image
When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
Mason Cooley