"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe,……" — Harry Mathews
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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30 Quotes by Harry Mathews
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I…
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was…
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You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
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Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of…
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation…
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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought…
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're…
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I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
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