Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. — 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
