Harry Mathews Quotes
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
Harry Mathews
Quotes to Explore
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
Kate Moss
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
Karan Mahajan
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
Rachel Boston
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
P. Sathasivam
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
Irena Sendler
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
Edie Sedgwick
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Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.
Leon Kass
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young
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He left a corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Lord Byron
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I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
Stephen Hunter
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No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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God's desire is that we excel.
Joel Osteen
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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
Alicia Keys
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We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Lao Tzu
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Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
Harry Mathews
