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Harold Brodkey

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

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Donna Grant

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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Donna Grant

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

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Donna Grant

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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Donna Grant

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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Donna Grant

"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

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Donna Grant

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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Donna Grant

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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Donna Grant

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

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Donna Grant

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

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Harold Brodkey
"This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over."

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Harold Brodkey
"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."

Death

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Harold Brodkey
"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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Harold Brodkey
"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."

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Harold Brodkey
"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."

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Harold Brodkey
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."

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Harold Brodkey
"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."

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Harold Brodkey
"Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself."

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Harold Brodkey
"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."

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Harold Brodkey
"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

Death

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