Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
luck bad-luck exception
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
satisfaction enough
Enough is ever-receding.
baby ideas lovers
The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.
truth disillusionment
Disillusionment is not truth.
father way remember
No one could be the way I remember my father.
sympathy father silence
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
self people pity
Self-pity makes people callous.
sympathy self self-pity
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
kissing white skins
Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.
destiny may providence
What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.
fear destiny demon
Everyone fears and courts his own demon.
substitution depends reversal
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
tests capability perversion
Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.
sad interesting office
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.