Harry Mathews Quotes
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
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You're always nervous about (losing Taylor). It would be real struggle for us (without him). I know what Sean says happened and what his group says happened. I think he is concerned about it and I think he felt like there is not much he can do about it now. He's kind of put it in other people's hands. You look a guy that big and that mature-looking and (you forget that) he's really young. He was real cooperative, much more open and friendly last year, and I think he had a heck of a year. I think he genuinely thought about (skipping the 2005 off-season workout program) and won't make some of those mistakes.
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You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.
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If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
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There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good.
