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
strong mean simple
Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
strong character people
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.
strong weakness feels
Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.
strong irony enough
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.
strong feelings sometimes
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.
strong grief addiction
Some crave grief like strong drink.
strong friendly politics
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
strong hopeful able
Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.
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.