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
