"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting……" — Harold Brodkey
"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 so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."
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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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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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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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More Drunk Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
— Edward Abbey
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just…
— Chester Bennington
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
— Jim Bishop
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
— Humphrey Bogart
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
— Ray Bradbury
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the…
— Joyce Brothers
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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