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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
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Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
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I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
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A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.
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When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
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In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.
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The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
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The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
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Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
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Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.
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The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
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I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
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Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.
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Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
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My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
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Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
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The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
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The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
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Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
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