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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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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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No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.
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Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
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Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.
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Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
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The prison is the state writ small.
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
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Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts in company, I am sober again.
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Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
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You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
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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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I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
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Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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