Life Quotes by Mason Cooley · Page 3

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

— Mason Cooley

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

— Mason Cooley

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

— Mason Cooley

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

— Mason Cooley

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

— Mason Cooley

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

— Mason Cooley

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

— Mason Cooley

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

— Mason Cooley

While there's life, there's fear.

— Mason Cooley

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

— Mason Cooley

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

— Mason Cooley

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

— Mason Cooley

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

— Mason Cooley

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

— Mason Cooley

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

— Mason Cooley