"Death and I are head to head in……" — Harold Brodkey
"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
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Harold Brodkey
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35 Quotes by Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey has 35 quotes on this site.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see…
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of…
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word,…
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I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is…
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My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
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The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but…
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are…
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as…
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More Collision Quotes
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops…
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build…
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion…
— James Madison
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or…
— Jacques Ellul
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty…
— Adolf Hitler
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not…
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