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
memories imagination
Memory is imagination pinned down.
memories current-events currents
Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.
memories eye past
Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
memories giving literature
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
memories history creative
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
happiness wisdom memories
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
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.