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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.
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Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
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Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.
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Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
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The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
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At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.
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A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as rewarding.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
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Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
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People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
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Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
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Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
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You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
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I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
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Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
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The real reality is always just around the corner.
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With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
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