An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Charles Horton Cooley
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.
Charles Horton Cooley
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Charles Horton Cooley
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago.
Charles Horton Cooley
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