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The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
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If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
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The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.
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Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
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We understand through resemblance.
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Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
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Some live in a state of passionate indecision.
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We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
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Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
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Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
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The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
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