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
his-love return doe
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.
money return love-of-money
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
freedom sleep return
Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.
love return i-can
I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.
wisdom return embrace
Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.
retirement return youth
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
lying may return
Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.
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.