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
flirting greatest-love shame
The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
guilt shame form
Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.
desire shame stills
Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
evil malevolence shameful
Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.
youth shame young
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
charity shame reluctant
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
age aging shameless
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
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.