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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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The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.
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Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.
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Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
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When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
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There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
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Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
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I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.
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Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
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Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
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Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.
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Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
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Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
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Sensuality takes planning and work.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.
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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
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Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
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