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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
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Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
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Disillusionment is not truth.
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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
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Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
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My self-absorption warms me yours boils me.
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To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
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When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.
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The time I kill is killing me.
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Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
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Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.
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Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
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The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
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Originality is in the eye of the beholder.
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
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Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
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Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
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A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
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