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Life is what it makes you.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
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Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
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Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
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If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
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Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
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Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
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Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
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Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.
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The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
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I can imagine many things, but few clearly.
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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
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I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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