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Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limit

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. – Harry Mathews

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Harry Mathews
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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 theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

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God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends. – Addison Mizner

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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. – Christiane Amanpour

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Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others expectations can be avoided. – Tina Weymouth

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My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album. – Deana Carter

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