"My protagonists are my mother's voice and the……" — Harold Brodkey

"My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen."

— Harold Brodkey

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35 Quotes by Harold Brodkey

Harold Brodkey has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see…
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of…
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word,…
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is…
The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but…
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are…
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as…

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — Alexis Arguello
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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