"In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked..."

-- Harold Brodkey

#Loneliness Quotes #Past Quotes #Self Quotes

“I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.”
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
“My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.”
“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.”
“Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.”
“Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.”
“We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.”
“For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of lifeâ€¦”

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