To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
