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Like love, grief fades in and out.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
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Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
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Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
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The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
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Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.
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Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
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If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
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Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
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Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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