"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."

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

Harry Mathews

#Writing Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Way Quotes

“I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.”

Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone, T. W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods (2007). “The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798)”, p.391, Oxford University Press
“Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.”

Source : 'The Retreat' l.29 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.”
“I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.”
“I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.”
“I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.”
“There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.”
“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.235, Hachette UK

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