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 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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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 felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
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Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.
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I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
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I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.
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Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
