Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little. — 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
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — 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
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. — 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