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The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Parody
Museums
Poems
Grand
Available
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Parodies

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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
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The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.
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Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.
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Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
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The desire to be significant casts a pall.
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The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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