Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. — 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
