Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason — 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
