Harry Mathews Quotes

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.

Harry Mathews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1930

Topics

GreatPoetryWritingAdolescence

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Jim Cooper

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It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

John McCarthy

LiveAloneManPeopleSometimesGet

In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless people, without inner voices, thoughts in their heads.

Robert J. Sawyer

PeopleThoughtsNightVoicesQuantum

There is nothing like watching the woman you are in love with make a baby, make a miracle! It is one hell of a ride, and I am only seven months in. Time is flying by, but I am taking it all in. It is the most important thing that I have ever been a part of in my life.

Matt Cohen

LifeLoveTimeRideWomanI Am

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

TimeMeCoolClothesBackWant

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Ruth Rendell

LifePeopleBetterKnowWantMy Own

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

Rowan Atkinson

FunnyAgeChildThinkYouPerson

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down.

Jason Jones

LifeHappinessTogetherFenceYou

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Jason Fried

LovePotentialViewYouRewardRisk

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Jojo Moyes

MarriageObstaclesFaceUnexpected

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Douglas Alexander

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My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.

Christine Lagarde

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