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
dream existence sentences
I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.
reading ethos pathos
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
reading civilized inner-life
Reading civilized the inner life.
reading book causes
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
reading privacy aliens
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
reading promise library
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
book reading avid
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
reading mind body
What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.
sports reading athlete
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
reading library mausoleum
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.
book reading here-and-there
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.
reading found ifs
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.
gratitude regret inspire
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.
regret naps overeating
Regret leads to overeating and naps.