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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
Mason Cooley
The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
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The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
Mason Cooley
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
Mason Cooley
Constant talkers are unheard.
Mason Cooley
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
Mason Cooley
Beggars market their incapacity.
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Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
Mason Cooley
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Mason Cooley
I put second things first, and then worry about first things.
Mason Cooley
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
Mason Cooley
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
Mason Cooley
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Mason Cooley
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
Mason Cooley
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.
Mason Cooley
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
Mason Cooley
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
Mason Cooley
I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.
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