People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. — 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
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
