"Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall."

--

Source : 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death

Harold Brodkey

“Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!”
“I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.”
“The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.”
“Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.348, Courier Corporation
“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”

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