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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The time I kill is killing me.
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The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
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Some live in a state of passionate indecision.
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Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
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Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
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Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.
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A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.
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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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Thought maps existence fantasy colors it.
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Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
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I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!
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Young men preen. Old men scheme.
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Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
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Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.
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Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
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Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
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Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
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I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
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