"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..."

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Source : Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage

Harold Brodkey

#People Quotes #Disparity Quotes #Should Quotes

“Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you make the grade? What catapulted you into consciousness? There must be some kind of natural process behind this astonishing leap, but this process is obscure.”
“If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).”
“I'll be out with my friends and be recognized, and little girls will ask me for my autograph. It is so much fun living out your dream. It, like, totally reflects me 100%.”
“I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.”
“It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.”
“When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.”
“Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.”
“There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.”

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