Past Quotes by Mason Cooley

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

— Mason Cooley

The present necessarily betrays the past.

— Mason Cooley

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

— Mason Cooley

Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.

— Mason Cooley

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

— Mason Cooley

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

— Mason Cooley

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

— Mason Cooley

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

— Mason Cooley

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

— Mason Cooley

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

— Mason Cooley

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

— Mason Cooley

Many try to force the past to change.

— Mason Cooley

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

— Mason Cooley

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

— Mason Cooley

Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

— Mason Cooley

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

— Mason Cooley