Harold Brodkey Quotes
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.