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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.
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Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
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I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
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Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
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Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
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Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
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Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
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Helplessness is a mighty power.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
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Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
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Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
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Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
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Politicians love change, but of details only.
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