"Write about the things that attract you. Choose……" — Harry Mathews
"Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire."
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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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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 left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
— Julian Assange
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It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is…
— Bruce Beresford
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl…
— Alton Brown
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect…
— Jimmy Carter
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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you;…
— James Lane Allen
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Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our…
— Amy Chua
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help,…
— F. H. Bradley
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything…
— Robert Collier
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