Mason Cooley Quotes
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
Folly always knows the answer.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
