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Harold Brodkey quotes: I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

Harold Brodkey quotes: This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Harold Brodkey quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: You really can't write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Harold Brodkey quotes: 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.

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

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

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

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: 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.

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.

Harold Brodkey quotes: I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I'll come apart.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

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

Harold Brodkey quotes: Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

Harold Brodkey quotes: Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.