"My mother could never understand why I didn't……" — Harry Mathews
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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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 graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year…
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race -…
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were…
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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of…
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I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with…
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I…
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the…
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the…
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