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Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Victimization
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Only death goes deeper than sex.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
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Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
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The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.
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The prison is the state writ small.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
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Love begins with an image lust with a sensation.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
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In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.
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Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
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Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
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Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.
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Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
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Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
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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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