Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic. — 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
