"the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the……" — Harold Brodkey
"the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy."
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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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