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Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
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Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them—at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
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... her breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.
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Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Philip Roth
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March 19, 1933
Died:
May 22, 2018
(aged 85)
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