#me

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 don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing. ↗

— Diana Ross

#around #come #go #i #i can

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody. ↗

— Kim Mathers

#had #i #just #love #low

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

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

#better #i #less #mediterranean #more

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

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#ever #first #first time #i #life

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#i #me #want #women

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#back #certain #choices #look #made