American - Author | February 14, 1930 -
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
Harry Mathews
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.
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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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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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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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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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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
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I love teaching.
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I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
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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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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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