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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
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The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
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No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.
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Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
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The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
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Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.
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Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
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In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
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Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
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Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
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The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so then your wish will be granted.
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Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
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The present necessarily betrays the past.
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The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
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The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.
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Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.
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Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
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I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
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