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Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.
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A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
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A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
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Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.
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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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My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
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Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
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Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.
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Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
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The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
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Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
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Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
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