Quotes of Harry Mathews - somelinesforyou

“ A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ 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

“ Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints — the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk — we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ 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

“ A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ 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

“ A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ 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

“ Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints — the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk — we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints — the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk — we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints — the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk — we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left for him. ”

- Harry Mathews

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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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