Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may. — 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
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
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
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
