The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Philip Roth in American Pastoral
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

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Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Philip Roth in The Human Stain
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