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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.
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Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
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Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
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Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
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The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.
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The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so then your wish will be granted.
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
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The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
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The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
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Beggars market their incapacity.
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When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
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Austerity causes constipation excess, diarrhea.
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
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Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
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