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The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.
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Small successes are still successes great failures are still failures.
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Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.
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Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
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In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
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A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
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Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
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The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
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Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
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There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
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Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
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Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
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My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
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I trust you because I need you.
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Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
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Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
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