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
reading privacy aliens
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
reading promise library
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
book reading avid
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
reading mind body
What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.
sports reading athlete
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
reading library mausoleum
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.
book reading here-and-there
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.
reading found ifs
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.
gratitude regret inspire
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.
regret naps overeating
Regret leads to overeating and naps.
regret self painful
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.
regret apologizing blame
I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
regret past doe
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
expectations uncanny feels
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.