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
romance language fetish
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
language
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
language propaganda
The best propaganda omits rather than invents
commitment language shallow
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.
language term stills
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
language
Language cannot say everything, fortunately.
people may language
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
limits doe language
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
language borrowed
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.
littles true-and-false language
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
jargon language
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
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.