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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Literature
Fictional
Explains
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Actual

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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
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Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
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Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
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Small successes are still successes great failures are still failures.
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Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
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Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.
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Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
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The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
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Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all.
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Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
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The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
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Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.
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Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
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