Harold Brodkey Quotes

• I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.

  Harold Brodkey

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

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• Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

  Harold Brodkey

  Struggle, Writing, Kind

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• I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

  Harold Brodkey

  Opinion, Stills, Knows

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• La memoria, tan completa y clara o tan evasiva, tiene que terminar, tiene que ser apartada, como si uno saliera de una capilla y pusiera fin a la oración en su cabeza.

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  Prayer, Memories, Leaving

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• Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

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  Health, Athlete, Exercise

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• Soy sensible a la velocidad de los momentos, y entrando en esa parte de mi cabeza alerta al movimiento del mundo soy consciente de que la vida nunca fue perfecta, nunca absoluta. Esto me da satisfacción, incluso intrepidez.

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  Perfect, Contentment, Entering

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

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  Accomplishment, Looks, Merit

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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, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

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  Reality, Illumination, Drunk

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• I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

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  People, My Thoughts

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• 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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  Spring, Butterfly, Wind

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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.

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  Sleep, Odds, Decay

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• I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Degrees, Abstinence, Homosexuality

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.

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  Said Life, People, Disparity

  Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage

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• 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

  Loneliness, Past, Self

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• I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.

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  Memories, Hard, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Way, Metamorphosis, Young

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• I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

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  Men, Rage, Homosexual

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• Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

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  Announcements, Has Beens, Written

  Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in The Scotsman, 29 Jan1996.

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• 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.

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  Long Ago, People, Stories

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

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  Mother, Voice, Mind

  Harold Brodkey (2013). “Women and Angels: Stories”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Loss, Funeral, Darkness

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• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  Harold Brodkey

  Years, Long, Adoption

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• 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.

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  New York, Party, Long

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• I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

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  Sweet, Sorry, Home

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• 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

  New York, Thinking, Anchors

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