"I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it."

-- Harold Brodkey

#Giving Up Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.”
“Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.”
“Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.”
“People think of education as something they can finish.”

Source : "Conversations with Isaac Asimov".
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
“Health care should be affordable for everyone.”
“My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.”
“When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.”

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