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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.
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Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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The right time to die is never exactly now.
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Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
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My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.
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The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.
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Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
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I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
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Supermarkets depict abundance boutiques exclusiveness roadside stands authenticity.
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Saying I love you makes a demand, but creates no obligations.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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