Harry Mathews Quotes
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
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This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
