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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
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I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
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People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
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