A mediocre book has the consistency of vegetable soup. The still-visible chunks of others' thoughts soak in the watery broth of the writer's own voice.
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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
Titles - All
- The Ease of Moral Rigidity
- Laissez-Faire Morality
- Law Under Nation
- The Solace of a Stock Chart
- The Continuum of History
- Public Figures Forfeit Private Lives
- Crowds and Culture
- Marital Happiness through Morbidity
- Division Forges Unity
- Children as Run-of-the-Mill Miracles
- Success Leads to Failure
- Traveling is One Experience in Many Locations
- Time Scatters the Remains of History
- The Labor of Vacation
- Trips Without Traveling
- The Confusion of Tongues
- The Double Bind of Political Fame
- The Empty Cathedrals of Europe
- The Risk of Writing Comedy
- Everything is Interesting
- Stammering Toward Eloquence
- Our Ambitions Tyrannize Us
- In Envy of Unhappiness
- We Live Out the Whims of Youth
- Obesity and Depression
- On the Phrase "Passed Away"
- Indulging Folly
- Consumers Mistake the New for the Necessary
- Gift-Giving as Zero-Sum Game
- Our Loves Spill Over
- Shopping As Charity For Corporations
- Love's Osmosis
- Vanity Despite Obscurity
- Bias for the Last
- Death is Green
- Great Cities in Retirement
- The Self-Rebuttal of Anger
- Portrait of the Critic in Three Stages
- Against Living in the Present
- The Conservation of Ourselves
- Morning Depression
- Newborn Mortals
- Fellowship or Freedom
- The History of the Present
- Sea-Longing and Sea-Sickness
- The Deserted End of the Demand Curve
- A Hobby is Work for Work's Sake
- The Friendship of Missionaries
- Counterproductive Passions
- A Meaningful Career As a Professor of Meaninglessness
- The Beauty of Blemishes
- Materialism is for the Soul
- We Love Songs More in Public
- Eras Die With the Elderly
- The Mutability of Children
- A Heaven of Contradictions
- The Famous Then Forgotten Dead
- Repression Makes Sex Interesting
- Activity and Depression
- Full Schedules Make Empty Lives
- Mozart as Elevator Music
- Free Time, Money, and Health
- The Poignancy of the Particular
- Modern Astronomy is Behind the Times
- City Rudeness
- Getting Dead and Being Dead
- The Unlegislative Branch
- Life is High-Maintenance
- War Above Water
- Travel Proves the Merits of Home
- Waking to Weather
- Originality Through Borrowing
- The Plains
- Time Passes So Quickly Because It Passes So Slowly
- The Hell of Heaven
- On Cars Stopping for Funeral Processions
- We Turn Into Trash
- Life at Sea is Spacious and Cramped
- Abstinence as Abortion
- The Potential Energy of Despair
- The Cosmos of Thought
- The Vegas of Voting Booths
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Outliving Your Lover
- Why Youth Feels Immortal
- We Love Our Life in the Wrong Order
- Sex and Suburbia
- Missionaries and Genocide
- The Missionary's God
- The Afterlife of Organ Donors
- Theology of the Empty Universe
- Music Moves the Young and Old
- Medieval Moderns
- Atheism and Computers
- Fireworks Can Convince Us of Any Cause
- Rural Density
- The Errant Power of Politicians
- The Pleasure of Talking to Oneself
- Memento Mori
- The Wilderness No Longer Feels Wild
- Luxury is Multiplying the Basics
- We Have Never Seen Our Faces
- Ignorant Authors
- We Were Gold Medalists in the Sperm Olympics
- The Rarity of Room Temperature
- We are Conquerors of Space but Captives of Time
- Modern Gold Rushes
- The Comedy of Sports
- False Apologies
- Election Campaigns, Then and Now
- Crying Ladies as Philosophers
- A Diamond is Only a Rock Without Someone to Wear It
- The Melodrama of Young Writers
- Turning Time's Corner at Twenty-Seven
- Only the Loner Can Study the Crowd
- The Paradox of Sexual Liberation
- Nazism and Me
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