Harold Brodkey Quotes


I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. Harold Brodkey Absolute 84
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. Harold Brodkey Funny 79
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 Adolescence 73
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 Being 72
In our opposed forms of loneliness and selfrecognition 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 Relationship 71
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. Harold Brodkey Collision 60
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. Harold Brodkey Death 56
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 Account 55
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. Harold Brodkey Almost 53
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. Harold Brodkey Down 53
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 Advised 47
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. Harold Brodkey Agony 39
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. Harold Brodkey Cast 33
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. Harold Brodkey Burial 30
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been. Harold Brodkey Alive 26
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. Harold Brodkey Account 22

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