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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
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Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
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Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
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Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
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The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
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Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
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Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
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Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.
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The best propaganda omits rather than invents
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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