Harold Brodkey Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Harold Brodkey

  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.

  Harold Brodkey

  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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• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

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  Giving Up, Past, Thinking

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• 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

  Light, Church, Earth

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• You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

  Harold Brodkey

  Writing, Games, Knows

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• Dios es una inmensidad, mientras que esta enfermedad, esta muerte, que está en mí, este pequeño y apretado acontecimiento pedestre, es simple y perfectamente real, sin milagro ni instrucción.

  Harold Brodkey

  Real, Miracle, Events

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• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

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  Collision, Mutual, Pure

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• 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

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  New York, Crazy, Done

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• I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

  Harold Brodkey

  Two, Space, Young

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• 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

  Pain, Agony, Shock

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