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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Oxymoronica

Wednesday March 3, 2004
Dr. Mardy Grothe is a logophiliac... a word-lover. The man loves words. He loves them so much, he collects them... gathers them and stores them away. He boasts something like 10,000 phrases that he's collected over the years. His latest book, Oxymoronica, focuses on paradoxical quotations that exhibit... well, Oxymoronica.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. - John Cage
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. - Niels Bohr

Putting forth that man's very basic nature is paradoxical, Dr. Grothe exhorts the wit and wisdom of these wonderfully twisted quotations.

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