Harold Brodkey Quotes

1930 - 1996

US writer and journalist. He died of AIDS.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

1996  This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

Harold Brodkey
— 1996  This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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

Harold Brodkey
— 1996  This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Harold Brodkey
— Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in TheScotsman, 29  Jan1996.

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