Quotes By Mason Cooley

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.