"In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition……" — Harold Brodkey
"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 explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked..."
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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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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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More Arms Quotes
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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