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Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews

American Author

Born: Feb 14, 1930

Could First Left Life Me Own

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

Princeton Harvard Left Graduated

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. Harry Mathews

Challenge Extremely City Paris Daunting Also Moved

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. Harry Mathews

Life Reading Own Entirely Something My Own Rely Somewhat Could Through Had Learned Limited Different Wanted Happened Actually Needed

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

Saying Good Great Me Words Distance Say About Poems Poetry Between Great Thing Well Greatest Dislocation They Say Actually Thing

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. Harry Mathews

Time Relationship Well Limited Left Very America

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. Harry Mathews

Mother Finally Thriller Could Write Never Understand Done Which Why

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. Harry Mathews

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. Harry Mathews

Opportunities Every Every Step Follow Seem Case Something Could Step Reader Narrative Always Odd Been May Frustrate Interesting Create

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

Best Thought Nothing Would Would-Be Magnificent Could Write Had He Like Him Doing Wanted Realized Then If I Could Really

I love teaching. Harry Mathews

Love Teaching

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

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