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Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Everyone
Makes
Sights
Relatively
Sexy
Sounds
Sight
Sex
Sound

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Folly always knows the answer.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
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Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.
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I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
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My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
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When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.
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No use saying necessity is making a mistake.
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The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.
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A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
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Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
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Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
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