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The body has a mind of its own.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
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Mind

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Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
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Truth usually stammers at first.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
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I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.
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A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
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The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
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The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
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I resist change even as I call for it.
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A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
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In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
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The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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