Harold Brodkey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.”

“If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.”

“True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.”