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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?
Mason Cooley
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
Mason Cooley
The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
Mason Cooley
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason Cooley
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Mason Cooley
A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
Mason Cooley
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
Mason Cooley
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
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Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
Mason Cooley
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Mason Cooley
After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
Mason Cooley
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Mason Cooley
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.
Mason Cooley
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
Mason Cooley
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
Mason Cooley
Boast quietly, with decorum.
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
Mason Cooley
Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.
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