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
gossip people dying
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
children optimism forlorn
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
real matter facts
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
serious affair quarrels
Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.
smile pride arrogance
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
truth power errors
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
somewhere-else self world
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
self selfishness absorption
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
hope home self
When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.
betrayal self self-betrayal
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
self analysis cheat
Self-analysis always cheats.
order self people
People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
self dwarves what-if
Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
self people satisfaction
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?