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Philip Roth
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
Philip Roth

Jim Harrison
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
Jim Harrison, The Beast God Forgot to Invent

W.G. Sebald
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

Shelby Foote
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote

Harold Pinter
“When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.”
Harold Pinter, Ashes to Ashes

45 Philip Roth... is awesome. — 187 members — last activity Jan 27, 2019 02:11PM
Pretty much what you were expecting.
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