The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves. — 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