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Harry Mathews

"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."

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Akiroq Brost

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Akiroq Brost

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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Akiroq Brost

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

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Akiroq Brost

"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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Akiroq Brost

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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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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Harry Mathews
"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."

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Harry Mathews
"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."

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Harry Mathews
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."

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Harry Mathews
"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."

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Harry Mathews
"Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."

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Harry Mathews
"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."

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Harry Mathews
"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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Harry Mathews
"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."

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Harry Mathews
"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence."

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