Harry Mathews Quotes

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

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• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Decision

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Long
  • Film
  • Doing

• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Walking
  • Cat

• No one is born hating others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Born
  • Others
  • Hating

• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Done

• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Men

• A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

  

  Anatole Broyard
  • Good
  • Book
  • Wall

• I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Life
  • Up
  • High

• The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

  

  Frank Gorshin

• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  

  David Liss
  • Justice
  • Weird
  • Batman

• We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Music
  • Rest

• I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

  

  Chris Paul
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• One can not be just if one is not humane.

  

  Luc de Clapiers

• To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Future

• The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me.

  

  James Gray
  • She
  • Amazing

• I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

  

  Paula Deen
  • Good
  • Magic

• I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Trying
  • Smile
  • Heard

• We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • God
  • Religious

• Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • World
  • Travel

• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • World
  • Insecurity
  • Hypocrisy

• Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism, absolute heroism.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Heroism
  • Ecstasy
  • Romanticism

• It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

  

  Harry Mathews
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