Quote

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Alien
Aliens
Privacy
Reading
Frees
Entertain

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.
Mason Cooley
Image
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
Mason Cooley
Image
Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
Mason Cooley
Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Mason Cooley
Image
I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.
Mason Cooley
Image
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
Mason Cooley
Image
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Mason Cooley
Image
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Mason Cooley
Image
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.
Mason Cooley
Image
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.
Mason Cooley
Image
The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
Mason Cooley
Image
Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
Mason Cooley
Image
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Mason Cooley
Image
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
Mason Cooley
Image
I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
Mason Cooley
Image
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Mason Cooley
Image
Passion cooks. Reason cleans.
Mason Cooley
Image
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Mason Cooley