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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
— Harry Mathews
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
— Harry Mathews
There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.
— Harry Mathews
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
— Sri Chinmoy
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.
— Harry Mathews
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
— Harry Mathews
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
— Harry Mathews
Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it's beautiful.
— Shelly Crane
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
— Harry Mathews
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
— Harry Mathews
I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.
— Stacie Evans
She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.
— Harry Mathews
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
— Harry Mathews
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
— Harry Mathews
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
— Harry Mathews
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
— Francis Pharcellus Church
I love teaching.
— Harry Mathews
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
— Harry Mathews
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
— Harry Mathews
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
— Harry Mathews
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
— George Eliot
Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.
— Wendell Pierce
