A Quote by Mason Cooley

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures. — © Mason Cooley
Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

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Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.
That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.
I don't mind playing spoiler.
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
I like to live a spoiler-free life.
Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.
I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.
Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.
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