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
disappointment remember feels
I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.
culture form expensive
Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
loss progress may
Progress may feel more like loss than gain.
self earning social
I create my social existence by earning and spending.
self people satisfaction
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
self dwarves what-if
Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
self analysis cheat
Self-analysis always cheats.
betrayal self self-betrayal
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
vulgarity-is innocent sophistication
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
comprehension knows
When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
elegance sleazes refutation
Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
jargon language
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
paraphrase quotations
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
originality eccentricity
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.