"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."

-- Harold Brodkey

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“I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.”
“I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time, all those boys had faded away, and my parents were still there.Â I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would.”
“How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?”
“Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.”
“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
“I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.”
“The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.”

Source : 1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).
“Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession,”

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