If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — 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
