Harold Brodkey Quotes

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

Harold Brodkey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 25, 1930 - January 26, 1996

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GodDeathMeSmallRealMiracle

Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.

Jimmy Walker

TodayFootballSmallGolfI Can

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Maya Lin

SchoolCrazyLovedClassLikeNerd

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

John Mellencamp

PeopleMeYearsIndianaFourKnown

One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.

Ann Leckie

WorldBookAttentionYouPlayNice

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John Prendergast

CourageGoAfricaSeeI See

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Trevor Noah

RelationshipWomanFightWinStart

The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly, President Bush has had a different vision, and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government.

Mike Pence

EducationVisionGovernmentParty

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

DemocracyInevitableBureaucracy

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

Del Shannon

Too MuchWayMoreDrinkingMuchToo

I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.

Sunny Mabrey

AloneFunLovedSomeoneYouHide

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

Shaun White

FeelJustMuchTrickDescribe

I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.

Todd Park

BestGovernmentTalentIdeasForward

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