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Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
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Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.
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All anger feels like righteous anger sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
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A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
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The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.
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Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
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Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.
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The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.
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Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
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My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.
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Growth provides novel experiences for youth decay the same, alas, for age.
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Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.
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Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.
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The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
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Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
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Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
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