All Harold Brodkey Quotes
- Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been Alive
- Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… Actual
- True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in… Account
- I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. Down
- Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and… Aside
- Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. Belated
- Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die… Abroad
- I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not. Everyone
- In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will… Advised
- It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying… Adoption
- It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but… Cannot Enter
- the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded… Ache
- In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in… Arms
- This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. Cast
- So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights… Account