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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
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A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
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What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
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Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.
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I trust you because I need you.
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
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Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
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Popular culture is seductive high culture is imperious.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
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Saying I love you makes a demand, but creates no obligations.
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Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.
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The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.
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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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