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1. "I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better." ~ Harry Mathews
2. "It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting." ~ Harry Mathews
3. "Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence." ~ Harry Mathews
4. "And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't." ~ Harry Mathews
5. "And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy." ~ Harry Mathews
6. "I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952." ~ Harry Mathews
7. "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited." ~ Harry Mathews
8. "My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach." ~ Harry Mathews
9. "I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old." ~ Harry Mathews
10. "I love teaching." ~ Harry Mathews
11. "I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches." ~ Harry Mathews
12. "Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am." ~ Harry Mathews
13. "My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name." ~ Harry Mathews
14. "My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done." ~ Harry Mathews
15. "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding." ~ Harry Mathews
16. "What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way." ~ Harry Mathews
17. "When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city." ~ Harry Mathews
18. "I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language." ~ Harry Mathews
19. "My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris." ~ Harry Mathews
20. "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." ~ Harry Mathews
21. "I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing." ~ Harry Mathews
22. "I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another." ~ Harry Mathews

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