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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
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The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
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If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
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Truth is a necessary phantom.
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Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.
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The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
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The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
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In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
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I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
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Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
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Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
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City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
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A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.
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