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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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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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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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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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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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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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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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
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Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it...
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Everything is firing on all cylinders for me.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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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.
