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Top 30 Brock Clarke Quotes (2025 Update)

Brock Clarke Quote: “I didn’t normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world of adults.”

1. “I didn’t normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world of adults.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “There is always someone smarter than you; you’d think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most of the time we’re too stupid to feel it.”

2. “There is always someone smarter than you; you’d think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most of the time we’re too stupid to feel it.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “The truth is that the world is full of bumblers exactly like you, and to think that you’re special is just one more thing you’ve bumbled.”

3. “The truth is that the world is full of bumblers exactly like you, and to think that you’re special is just one more thing you’ve bumbled.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they’re complicated.”

4. “Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they’re complicated.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “You could have saved her,” he said, and I realized that he had started crying, crying being that thing you do when you haven’t done enough and you’re afraid it’s too late to start.”

5. “You could have saved her,” he said, and I realized that he had started crying, crying being that thing you do when you haven’t done enough and you’re afraid it’s too late to start.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “When he did that, I didn’t hate him anymore, I really didn’t, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to the people that who love them: because it’s so easy to stop hating someone if you’ve already started loving them.”

6. “When he did that, I didn’t hate him anymore, I really didn’t, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to the people that who love them: because it’s so easy to stop hating someone if you’ve already started loving them.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but all of it, the forgotten crowd of your life breaks out of the gallery and comes rushing at you, and there is no sense in hiding from the crowd, it will find you; it’s your crowd, you’re the only one it’s looking for.”

7. “The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but all of it, the forgotten crowd of your life breaks out of the gallery and comes rushing at you, and there is no sense in hiding from the crowd, it will find you; it’s your crowd, you’re the only one it’s looking for.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Maybe that’s the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that’s not.”

8. “Maybe that’s the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that’s not.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “I confess this is an unforeseen – unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it – by-product of journaling: in writing down the facts of one’s feelings, one might leave out facts, and one might also try to convince oneself that one’s fantasy is, in fact, one’s fact, or at least a fact among other facts, other facts that are, in fact, facts, making it most difficult to tell the fact from the fantasy.”

9. “I confess this is an unforeseen – unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it – by-product of journaling: in writing down the facts of one’s feelings, one might leave out facts, and one might also try to convince oneself that one’s fantasy is, in fact, one’s fact, or at least a fact among other facts, other facts that are, in fact, facts, making it most difficult to tell the fact from the fantasy.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren’t these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.”

10. “You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren’t these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you’ve done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven’t done.”

11. “Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you’ve done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven’t done.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I’d caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I’d sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.”

12. “How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I’d caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I’d sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.”

13. “Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn’t make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.”

14. “And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn’t make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you’re a kid who doesn’t know what adults know. But it seemed now it was one of those specific things adults say to remind you that you’re a kid who doesn’t know what adults know.”

15. “At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you’re a kid who doesn’t know what adults know. But it seemed now it was one of those specific things adults say to remind you that you’re a kid who doesn’t know what adults know.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it one.”

16. “Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it one.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn’t have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”

17. “If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn’t have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.”

18. “Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.”

19. “I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my touch won’t tingle her arm as hers tingled mine, and how unbearably sad that would be.”

20. “I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my touch won’t tingle her arm as hers tingled mine, and how unbearably sad that would be.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

21. “If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail – the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn’t pay much attention to those letters at all.”

22. “There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail – the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn’t pay much attention to those letters at all.”

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Brock Clarke Quote: “When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing – or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don’t and can’t get anyway.”

23. “When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing – or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don’t and can’t get anyway.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they’re in love but afterward, when they finally realize all the many horrible and beautiful things locked up within that love.”

24. “They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they’re in love but afterward, when they finally realize all the many horrible and beautiful things locked up within that love.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Some of the books I’d read had told me that love is fleeting; some of the other books I’d read had told me that love is eternal. But they were wrong. Love isn’t either of those things. Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.”

25. “Some of the books I’d read had told me that love is fleeting; some of the other books I’d read had told me that love is eternal. But they were wrong. Love isn’t either of those things. Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “That’s not important,′ he said, and when Detective Wilson said that, I was sure he didn’t know the answer, ‘not important’ being just one of the things we call that which we don’t know.”

26. “That’s not important,′ he said, and when Detective Wilson said that, I was sure he didn’t know the answer, ‘not important’ being just one of the things we call that which we don’t know.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was “A Fictional Memoir.” I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn’t make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy.”

27. “I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was “A Fictional Memoir.” I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn’t make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “I have no idea,′ he said, and that’s another thing I’ll put in my arsonist’s guide: be wary of a man who says, ‘I have no idea,’ when asked why his wife doesn’t like something he’s done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.”

28. “I have no idea,′ he said, and that’s another thing I’ll put in my arsonist’s guide: be wary of a man who says, ‘I have no idea,’ when asked why his wife doesn’t like something he’s done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Oh no,” I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then “oh no” is apparently that song’s chorus, the words we always return to.”

29. “Oh no,” I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then “oh no” is apparently that song’s chorus, the words we always return to.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don’t know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by “bones.”

30. “When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don’t know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by “bones.”

— Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke Quote: “Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.”

31. “Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.”

— Brock Clarke

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