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
stories literature insult
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
change way stories
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
stories conventions conventionality
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
views turkeys stories
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
love want stories
Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
cat stories may
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
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.
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.