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Harold Brodkey quotations

  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over."
  • "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."
  • "I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing."
  • "Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."
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