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
waiting deconstruction betray
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
waiting laziness circumstances
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
waiting tongue frogs
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
power people waiting
The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
past waiting always-waiting
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
happiness waiting reason
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
waiting temptation impatient
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.
waiting oblivion threatening
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
patience men waiting
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
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.