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Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Really
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Faster
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Moderation shifts when extremes do.
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Successful innovations become conventions.
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
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Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.
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Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.
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Only death goes deeper than sex.
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The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
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Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
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In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.
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Some live in a state of passionate indecision.
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When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
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Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
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