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

I'm a good friend. — Jack Nicholson

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

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

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

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground. — Stephon Marbury

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

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. — Eric Topol

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

I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

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

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

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

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie. — Robert Breault

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

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