My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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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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I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didn't leave Harvard early I actually finished.
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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.
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I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable.
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It wasn't anything he said it was his whole attitude towards literature that made me realize that I could do absolutely anything I wanted to.
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