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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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All anger feels like righteous anger sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
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Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.
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The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
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Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
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Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
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I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
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Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
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Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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One eventually has enough even of oneself.
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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
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I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.
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