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Quoting Quotes by Mason Cooley

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Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.

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Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

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The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

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Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

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

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

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Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

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

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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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Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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