The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. — 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
