"Often writing is like a struggle to get……" — Harold Brodkey
"Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity."
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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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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 Belated Quotes
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed…
— Adolf Hitler
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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
— Leon Askin
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The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child…
— Brock Chisholm
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while…
— John Milton
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
— H. L. Mencken
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The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in…
— Richard M. Nixon
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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It…
— Raul Grijalva
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Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a…
— Paul Gauguin
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[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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