Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Energy falls just short of being joy.

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  Fall, Joy, Energy

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• Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

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  Hero, Fighting, Ironic

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• The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

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  Hero, White, Used

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• Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

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  Hero, Born, Heroines

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• Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

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  Justice, Mercy, Deals

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

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  Opportunity, Luck, Gone

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• A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.

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  Opportunity, Needs, Lasts

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• An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

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  Friends, Enemy, Dangerous

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• Jokes are unanswerable objections.

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  Jokes, Objections

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• We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

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  Food, Together, Mouths

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• In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

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  Food, Cities, Strange

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• I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

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  May, Dignity, Forget

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• No dignity without distance.

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  Distance, Dignity

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• Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

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  Pain, Killers, Violence

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• I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

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  Misery, Pleasure

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• I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

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  Pleasure, Pursue

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

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  Gone, Pleasure, Sour

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• People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

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  People, Imagine, Certain

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• Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

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  Pain, Consciousness, Pleasure

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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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  Self, Trying, Pity

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