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Politicians love change, but of details only.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.
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The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
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Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.
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Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
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The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
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Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.
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The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.
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New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
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My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
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Few things are worth doing perfectly.
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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
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I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.
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The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
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In the city, nudity means something in the wild, it just exists.
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
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To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
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