"I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952."

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

Harry Mathews

#Harvard Quotes #Princeton Quotes

“Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.”
“I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.”
“Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.”

Source : Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers
“If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.”
“The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.”
“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”

Source : "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
“I loathe high/low art distinctions in any case, so the crossing and re-crossing of that line is an act to be savored and celebrated, regardless of how it turns out. I consider that transgressive aspect of the medium one of its great strengths. In the way comics is both words and pictures while being neither, comics is the Trickster's medium, and as such I would be happy if no one ever knew what to do with it.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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