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
reading privacy aliens
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
reading book causes
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
reading civilized inner-life
Reading civilized the inner life.
reading ethos pathos
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
feelings asking fifth-amendment
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.
feelings body my-love-for-you
Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
feelings literature sentiments
Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.
feelings dogma sentiments
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
garden snakes paradise
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
loss paradise sentimental
No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.
guilt wicked thrill
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
witty father embarrassed
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
cities taste fastidious
A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.
firsts sin slips
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.