"God is an immensity, while this disease, this……" — Harold Brodkey
"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 miracle—or instruction."
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Harold Brodkey
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35 Quotes by Harold Brodkey
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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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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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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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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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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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