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As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
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Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
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Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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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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Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
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An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
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Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
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Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
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Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
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Paradox likes contradictions with exits.
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The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
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When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.
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