Harold Brodkey Quotes
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.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time.
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
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A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
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I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.
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Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.
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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.
