Harold Brodkey Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
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An evil life is a kind of death.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
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My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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Je voudrais être illustre et inconnu.
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One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
