Harry Mathews Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
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I've never had the patience of a teacher.
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Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
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One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
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Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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Being cold, we're not decomposing as much as they could be.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
