Harry Mathews Quotes & Sayings

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I think situations are more important than plot and character.

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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.

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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.

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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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