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.
More Quotes from Harold Brodkey:
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.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.
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.
Harold Brodkey
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
Harold Brodkey
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
Harold Brodkey
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.
Harold Brodkey
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Memory Quotes, Prayers QuotesBased on Keywords: chapel, evasive
There is no armor against fate.
James Shirley
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Anthony Trollope
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk