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
Mason Cooley quotes about
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?
order self people
People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
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.
ideas giving methodology
Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.
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.
talking silence speech
Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.
jargon language
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
political driving exile
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
paraphrase quotations
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
originality eccentricity
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.