Quotes by Harold Brodkey

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

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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

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

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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be...

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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York....

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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental...

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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial...

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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because,...

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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that...

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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the...

#Harold Brodkey

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well,...

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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties,...

#Harold Brodkey