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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
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Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.
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Indifference creates an artificial peace.
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Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.
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One eventually has enough even of oneself.
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The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
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Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
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Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
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Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
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Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
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Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
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My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
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Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
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If there is no harm in asking, why guilt and fear when we do so?
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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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