All Mason Cooley Quotes
- An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. Academic
- Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. Advertising
- Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth. Fulfillment
- Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. Forgotten
- The real secrets are not the ones I tell. Inspirational
- Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. Amazing
- Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. Admit
- Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss. Discuss
- Few artists can afford artistic temperament. Afford
- First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Came
- Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. Ideology
- It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. Funny
- My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. Denied
- Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. Avoid
- I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. Book
- If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. Abject
- If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. Disappeared
- Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. Cries
- Listening to people keeps them entertained. Entertained
- Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. Conversation