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Harry Mathews

"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."

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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."

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"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."

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"Dream in a pragmatic way."

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"This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted."

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"You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully!"

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"Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!"

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"Do not get discourage in pursuit of your dreams."

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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

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"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

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"To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!"

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"The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the 'impossible' that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway."

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"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
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"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
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"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
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"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
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"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
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"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
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"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
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