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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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The prison is the state writ small.
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True wit has a grave intention.
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Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
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Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
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Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
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Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
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I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.
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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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Comedy defends the commonplace tragedy explodes it.
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The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
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Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
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Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
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Many try to force the past to change.
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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The realism of failure, the romance of success.
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Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
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Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
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