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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Beggars market their incapacity.
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The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
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The older we become, the more certain our future.
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The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
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Many try to force the past to change.
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The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.
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A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
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No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.
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I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!
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Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
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The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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The real reality is always just around the corner.
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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
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Worry is not thought complaining is not action.
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New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.
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I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
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