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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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Soon
Hear
Rights
Right

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After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
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Desire is wakeful satisfaction dozes.
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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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Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
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In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.
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Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
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I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
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In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.
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Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
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I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
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Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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