Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 33

• The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

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  Running, Artist

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• The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

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  Aphorism, Slippery

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• The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

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  Time, Lines, Want

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• A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

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  Sentimental, Surprise, Aphorism

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• To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

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  Modern, Aphorism, Should

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• Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

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  Waiting, Frogs, Tongue

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• The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

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  Perfect, Upset, Balance

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• Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

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  May, Aphorism

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• Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

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  Aphorism, Structure, Angle

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• The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

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  Way, Slides, Aphorism

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• Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

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  Advice, Flying, Fortune Cookie

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• Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

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  Done, Feels, Maxims

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• An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

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  Doe, Aphorism, Score

  "City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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• The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

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  Confusion, Mastery, Unhappiness

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• By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

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  Commitment, Responsibility, Irony

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• I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

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  Towns, Wealth, Affluent

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• Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

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  Art, Sex, Drug

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• Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

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  Ignorance, Invincible, Infallibility

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• Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

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  Lust, Lechery, Secretive

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• Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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  Guilt, Trifles, Habitual

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• Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

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  Costumes, Adultery, Periods

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• Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

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  Asceticism, Celibacy, Incapacity

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• Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

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  Peculiar, Asceticism, Way

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• Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

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  Problem, Chastity, Treated

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• Cynicism has its own zealots.

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  Cynicism, Zealot

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