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
change mother father
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
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.
father matriarchy patriarch
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
children father childhood
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
witty father embarrassed
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
father grief anger
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.
father age ghost
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
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.