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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
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No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
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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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Victory brings obliviousness defeat, attentiveness.
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Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.
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People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
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Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
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Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
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The pleasantest part of work is having done it.
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The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
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Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
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Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
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