The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority. — 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