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Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
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Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
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Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
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When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
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Saying I love you makes a demand, but creates no obligations.
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Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
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Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
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Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.
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Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
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