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Famous Mason Cooley Quotes
“If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.”
“Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.”
“The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.”
“Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.”
“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
“In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.”
“The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.”
“Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.”
“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
“It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.”
“Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.”
“The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.”
“The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.”
“Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.”
“Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.”
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
“Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.”
“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
“My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.”
“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”
“Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.”
“The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.”