Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. — 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
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. — 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
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. — 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
