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