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

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. — Alan Paton

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

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

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

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

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

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson

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

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. — Harold Brodkey

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. — Judy Holliday

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

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

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

Christ in a Pinata' how have I over complicated the plot? — Scott Parker

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

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

That was when the dwarf turned to the eunuch and said, "I've killed my father," in the same tone a man might use to say, "I've stubbed my toe. — George R R Martin

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

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. — Arthur C. Clarke

I'm here to live, and I feel small. — Stephanie Perkins

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment. — David Jeremiah

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

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market. — Piers Steel

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

A fan of that ass, more than likely, I figured. — Mariana Zapata

Forgive everyone everything. — Regina Brett

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

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

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

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

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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