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Harold Brodkey Quotes

Harold Brodkey quotes

American Author October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996

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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. Harold Brodkey
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone..."
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not. Harold Brodkey
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a..."
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when..."
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred..."
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "But death's acquisitive instincts will win."
But death's acquisitive instincts will win. Harold Brodkey
I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey quote: "Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and..."
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. 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. 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... Harold Brodkey
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. Harold Brodkey
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. Harold Brodkey

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