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
order giving comfort
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
time routine comfort
Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
comfort no-turning-back
Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.
sacrifice style comfort
Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.
seductive age comfort
With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.
soul criminal-mind comfort
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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.