I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

Literary career
Brodkey's career began promisingly with the short story collection First Love and Other Sorrows which received widespread critical praise at the time of its 1958 publication. " In The New Criterion Bruce Bawer found the book's tone to be "extraordinarily arrogant and self-obsessed. Life
Brodkey was raised in University City Missouri outside St.

Harold Brodkey born Aaron Roy Weintraub (October 25 1930 born in Staunton Illinois – January 26 1996 Manhattan) was an American writer and novelist.