Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. — Mason Cooley Books Copy Share Image
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated. — Mason Cooley Facts Copy Share Image
When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley Expectations Copy Share Image
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings. — Mason Cooley Barbarism Copy Share Image
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent. — Mason Cooley Aging Copy Share Image
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. — Mason Cooley Ordinariness Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street. — Mason Cooley Beautiful Copy Share Image
Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused. — Mason Cooley Disappointment Copy Share Image
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley Aphorism Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Example Copy Share Image
