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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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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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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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
