"My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen."

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Source : Harold Brodkey (2013). “Women and Angels: Stories”, p.26, Open Road Media

Harold Brodkey

#Mother Quotes #Voice Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.”
“I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.”
“The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.”
“The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.”
“Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.”
“As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.”

Source : Interview with Munem Wasif, www.chobimela.org. November 24, 2014.
“You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.”

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