Harry Mathews Quotes

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Harry Mathews

• France
• Languages
• Italy
• Mistaken dream

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• I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

  

  Harry Mathews
  • France
  • Languages
  • Italy