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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
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Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
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Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
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Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts in company, I am sober again.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
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When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
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The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
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In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
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Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
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I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
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