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 secret
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
lust lechery secretive
Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.
secret humiliating petty
My secrets are petty but humiliating.
success secret poison
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
passion secret-love culture
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
secret pleasure masturbation
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
secret live-by dies
Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.
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.