Mason Cooley Mean Quotations

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.