Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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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.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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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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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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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
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