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
real mirrors faces
The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
mirrors soul faces
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
mirrors tongue sticking-out
Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.
mirrors sorrow looks
When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.
mirrors trying literature
Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
mirrors imagination desire
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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.