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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.
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The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
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People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
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I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
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Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
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My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.
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Self-deception is nature hypocrisy is art.
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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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To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
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The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
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Pity drowns in numbers.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
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Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
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Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.
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Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.
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Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.
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