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> [And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/and-i-finished-college-because-i-thought-how-much-it-would-upset-my/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

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> [And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/and-i-finished-college-because-i-thought-how-much-it-would-upset-my-2/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

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## More by Harry Mathews

> [My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/my-life-in-cia-is-the-first-time-that-i-ve-ever-written-a-story-in-my/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/my-dream-i-remember-when-i-went-to-boarding-school-was-to-have-a/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/and-then-when-i-left-princeton-in-the-middle-of-my-sophomore-year-i/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/there-are-many-things-i-ve-written-that-i-didn-t-really-understand/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/my-mother-could-never-understand-why-i-didn-t-write-a-thriller-which/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/i-d-been-brought-up-on-the-upper-east-side-in-a-wasp-society-which/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/my-idea-was-to-go-to-vienna-to-study-conducting-and-perhaps-play-in/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/well-the-great-thing-for-me-about-poetry-is-that-in-good-poems-the/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/well-i-had-this-little-notion-i-started-writing-when-i-was-eleven/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [“She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/she-was-disgusted-with-herself-and-the-disgust-permanently-cured-her/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/i-also-had-this-mistaken-dream-fantasy-really-perhaps-because-i-m/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/i-graduated-in-1952-and-went-to-europe-with-niki-and-our-first-child/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/what-i-said-about-john-was-that-he-liberated-me-from-my-anxieties/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [“Lewis, anything but dull, suffered from an excess of misguided cleverness: he could disparage himself brilliantly in a matter of seconds. He knew literature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/lewis-anything-but-dull-suffered-from-an-excess-of-misguided/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

> [I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-mathews/i-thought-cheever-was-magnificent-and-that-if-i-could-write-like-him/)

[Harry Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-mathews/)

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