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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
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God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
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My secrets are petty but humiliating.
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In the city, nudity means something in the wild, it just exists.
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There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
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Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
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I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.
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Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
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Wit puts politicians at risk.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
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Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
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A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
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The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
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Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
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To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
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