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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Truths
Writers
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I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.
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Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
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I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
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After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
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Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
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To avoid eye contact, kiss.
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Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
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I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
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Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
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Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
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