Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
