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Harold Brodkey

"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."

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"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."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

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"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

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"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

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"It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself."
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"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."
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"I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it."
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"This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over."
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"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."
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"True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale."
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"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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"But death's acquisitive instincts will win."
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"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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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
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