Harry Mathews Quotes
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.
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Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
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During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
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I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.
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I love comedy. It's where my heart is.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
