#lit

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#office #politics #weak

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#give #name #our #reality

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#mistakes #only #originality #universal

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

— Mason Cooley

#charming #delightful #exploitation #innocence #offers

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#literary #style #understand

Documents create a paper reality we call proof. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #documents #paper #proof #reality

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#almost #company #may #much #people