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
mind lasts judgment
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
winning nihilism lasts
The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
opportunity lasts needs
A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
loss lasts lost
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.
believe literature lasts
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
ties lasts dieting
Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.
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.