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Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
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Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
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Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
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Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
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Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.
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Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.
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The only peace is being out of earshot.
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In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
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Life is struggle and sleep.
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The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
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I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
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Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
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Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.
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Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
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Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
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Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
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