Harold Brodkey Quotes

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• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am…
• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is…
• I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think…
• If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not…
• I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without…
• My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
• The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would…
• But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
• Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
• Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out…
• I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds…
• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is…
• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and…
• I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.
• I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.
• You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.
• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends…
• I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the…

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