"Well, my relationship to America at the time……" — Harry Mathews

"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."

— Harry Mathews

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30 Quotes by Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More America Quotes

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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