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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
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“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
― The Beast God Forgot to Invent
― The Beast God Forgot to Invent
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― Vertigo
― Vertigo
“When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.”
― Ashes to Ashes
― Ashes to Ashes
Philip Roth... is awesome.
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Pretty much what you were expecting.
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