#ate

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#create #down #hill #his #liberation

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#breakup #concurrently #device #did #even

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

— Harry Mathews

#europe #first #graduated #i #laura

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#being #bullied #did #elders #feeling

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#chosen #feel #films #fortunate #gotten

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

— Harry Mathews

#acceptable #anxieties #correct #i #john

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

— Harry Mathews

#harvard #i #left #princeton

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

#attraction #basic #behaved #culture #high

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

#child #company #delicious #especially #extremely

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#among #arts #been #fascinated #first