Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. — 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
