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The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.
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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
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Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
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I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
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Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
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The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.
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An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
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Only death goes deeper than sex.
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Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
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I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
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A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
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Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.
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The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
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Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
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As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
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You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?
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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
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When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
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