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

Mason Cooley

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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
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Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
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If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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Civilization creates discontents barbarism creates quick endings.
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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
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Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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Sometimes Yes is rhetoric enough.
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Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.
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I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.
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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
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At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
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