"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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Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

Harry Mathews

#Summer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Years Quotes

“Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not”
“You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.”
“I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.”
“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow - before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”
“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.”
“The conversation of bullets.”
“When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?”
“I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.”

Source : Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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