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
ambition successful careers
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
ambition vanity gullibility
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.
ambition imagination way
Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.
ambition intention drifting
Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.
time ambition mediocrity
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
ambition greatness soul
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
nice literature hobbies
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
im-sorry sorry mistrust
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
art avant-garde care
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
stories literature insult
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
beginning-middle-and-end abandoned ends
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
modern paint depiction
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
freedom lateness late
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.