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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
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I put second things first, and then worry about first things.
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Only death goes deeper than sex.
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To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.
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My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.
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My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
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In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.
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The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
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Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
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A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
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If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
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Constant talkers are unheard.
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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
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Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
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Worry is not thought complaining is not action.
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Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
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