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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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Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
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Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
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Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
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When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.
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The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
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Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
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Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
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I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
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A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
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The family is on its way out couples go next then no more keeping cats or parrots.
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Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
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Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
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