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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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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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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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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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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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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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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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
