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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
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With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
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I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
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The sun cares nothing for illumination.
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
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It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
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When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.
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Moderation shifts when extremes do.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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Sensuality takes planning and work.
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
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Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
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The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
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When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
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Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.
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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
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