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Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Popular culture is seductive high culture is imperious.
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The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
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The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.
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Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
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If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.
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Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
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My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.
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Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.
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Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.
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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.
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Many try to force the past to change.
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Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.
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Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
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Victory brings obliviousness defeat, attentiveness.
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Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
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Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.
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All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.
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