"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."

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Source : "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

Harry Mathews

#Easter Quotes #Upper East Side Quotes #Sides Quotes

“When people come to you with problems or challenges, don't automatically solve them. As a mama bear, you want to take care of your cubs, so you tend to be protective and insulate them against all those things. But if you keep solving problems for your people, they don't learn how to actually solve problems for themselves, and it doesn't scale. Make sure that when people come in with challenges and problems, the first thing you're doing is actually putting it back to them and saying: "What do you think we should do about it? How do you think we should approach this?".”
“I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.”
“I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.”
“The essence ofÂ independenceÂ is to be able to do something for oneâ€™s self.”
“The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.”
“I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.”
“People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.”

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