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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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The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
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Constant talkers are unheard.
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Being enthusiastic settles nothing.
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Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
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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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Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
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Saying I love you makes a demand, but creates no obligations.
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
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You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
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Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
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Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
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The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
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Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.
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Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
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Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.
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Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
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Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.
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Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.
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