Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist. He is the father of Temi Rose, born Ann Emily Brodkey...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1930
CountryUnited States of America
opinions thousands
I have thousands of opinions still, but that is down from millions, and as always, I know nothing.
alike anger explosions immediacy reviewers seen stage vanity
His brutish explosions of anger, his displays of vanity on stage were seen by pretentious and unpretentious reviewers alike as having an immediacy new to the theater.
firsts television ill
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
collision mutual distaste
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
said-life people should
The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything...
announcements has-beens written
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
halls vague
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
struggle writing kind
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
loneliness past self
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...
athlete exercise healthy
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.