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
criticism important use
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.
criticism shapes purpose
Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.
criticism evidence strict
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.
criticism culture prey
The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.
voice criticism invited
Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.
criticism polemics pranks
Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
literature may
Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.
desire looks literature
The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
literature moral old-fashioned
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.
memories giving literature
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
cities satire born
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
illness refuge trapped
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
lonely loneliness self
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
loneliness curiosity
Curiosity makes loneliness.