Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 37

• Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

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  Next Steps, Unexpected, Originality

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• Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

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  Home, Scratches, I Can

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• Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

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  Real, Matter, Facts

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• Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

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  Children, Class, Gentleman

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• The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

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  Class, Shoes, Voice

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• Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

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  Mars, Venus, Detectives

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• The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

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  Passion, Olympian Gods, Dies

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• Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

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  God, Men

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• When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

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  Building, Refuge, Civics

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• My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

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  Loss, Effort, Losing

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• Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

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  Blessing, Long, World

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• To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.

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  Success, Succeed, Ruts

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• I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

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  Success, Hands, Firsts

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• I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

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  Success, Would Be, Worship

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• My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

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  Dream, Crowds, Murmuring

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• Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

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  Duty, Inclination

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• Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Folly

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• Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

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  Stars, Sky, Sorrow

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• Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

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  Sorrow, Desire, Example

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• When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

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  Mirrors, Sorrow, Medusa

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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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