"I am sensible of the velocity of the……" — Harold Brodkey
"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 aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
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Harold Brodkey
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35 Quotes by Harold Brodkey
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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 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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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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