Harry Mathews Quotes
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Harry Mathews
Quotes to Explore
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
Yael Stone
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Yann Martel
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I'm minimalistic when it comes to makeup, so I'm a sucker for anything that's multi-tasking. Aquaphor is my go-to product. It's great for adding gloss to eyes and cheekbones, and amazing for soothing dry cuticles, too.
Mandy Moore
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The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.
Craig Newmark
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To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.
Randy Alcorn
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
Scott Westerfeld
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica Jong
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - Base Ball is a democratic game.
A. G. Spalding
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
Elena Ferrante
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To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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O, to have the soul bathed all day long in this thought, " as the pebble in the willow brook " until the words come like the tears, because the heart is full, and we cannot help it; to feel, in the darkest hour, that there is an unseen Spectator whose eyes rest on us like morning on the flowers; and that in the severest sorrow, we can sink into a presence full of love and sympathy, deeper than ever breathed from earth or sky or loving hearts— a presence in which all fears and anxieties melt away as ice-crystals in the warm ocean. This is heaven.
Edward Thomson
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Adam McKay
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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
Oswald Chambers
