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
giving vices pleasure
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
fun vices virtue
Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.
vices sometimes virtue
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
vices boring cruelty
Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
fancy vices youth
The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
self vices medication
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.
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.
freedom lateness late
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.