Celebrities enjoy every luxury except solitude.
Fame
Success, by way of ambition, leads to failure.
Our small feats appear huge through the microscope of our vanity.
Our names burn out like light bulbs, briefly flashing before going black.
Does a president toast his ego that he was elected, or despair that polls show half the nation hates him?
Subtlety and complexity in art sadly tend to undermine themselves. They are hard to notice, in proportion as they are hard to create.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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