"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."

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Harry Mathews

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“In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.”
“It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.”
“It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.”
“When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.”
“There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.”
“If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.”
“There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.”
“At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.”

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