Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. — 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
