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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
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If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.
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I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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Constant talkers are unheard.
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Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
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Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
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The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
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