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
museums history giving
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
museums style parody
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
museums quotation-marks mark
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
issues museums joining
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
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.
happiness lost complainers
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
complaining pastime complaints
Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.