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Share your favorite quotes from Philip Roth's The Human Stain.

"I don't know why I'm not better prepared for this, Coleman. I should be," she said. "You've been giving fair warning almost from the day you got here. You were seriously disinclined even to take the breast. Yes, you were. Now I see why. Even that might delay your escape. There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color—there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave."

“I suppose any profound change in life involves saying, ‘I don’t know you’ to someone.”

“Afraid of being exposed, dying to be seen—there’s a dilemma for you.”