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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Harry Mathews
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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. Harry Mathews
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. Harry Mathews
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. Harry Mathews
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. Harry Mathews
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. Harry Mathews
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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. Harry Mathews
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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Harry Harrison
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I like Ireland because it means I'm near France. Harry Harrison
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. Van Morrison