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Top 20 Harry Mathews Quotes (2025 Update)

Harry Mathews Quote: “I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.”

1. “I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Harry Mathews Quote: “Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.”

3. “Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints – the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk – we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”

4. “Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints – the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk – we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”

— Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews Quote: “I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.”

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

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

6. “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 Quote: “Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.”

7. “Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me – nobody, like the football coach.”

8. “My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me – nobody, like the football coach.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews Quote: “And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.”

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

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Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Harry Mathews

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

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

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Harry Mathews Quote: “What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.”

14. “What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “I think situations are more important than plot and character.”

15. “I think situations are more important than plot and character.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “I’ve always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.”

16. “I’ve always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.”

— Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews Quote: “There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.”

17. “There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.”

18. “You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.”

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Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Harry Mathews

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