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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
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Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
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Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
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Small successes are still successes great failures are still failures.
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In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
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More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.
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My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
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The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
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With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
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Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
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Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.
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A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
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Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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Do as you like--if you know what it is.
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The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
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