Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — 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
