Quotes by Harry Mathews

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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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

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Upset

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

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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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Dream

France

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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Europe

Years

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

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Left

Princeton

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Character

Important

Thinking

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.

Norfolk

Said

Virginia

I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

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Sides

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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 readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

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Quotes by Harry Mathews

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.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

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

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.

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

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

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.

I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

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 readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

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