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“All that moral precociousness and striving had made me a success in my budding literary career and a stupid, burdened failure in my private life,
“You look different. You look good. Did you get a face-lift?” “No,” Roth replied, “I got a divorce.”
“I don’t think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It’s the best preparation I know of for death.”
“You know what Chekhov said when someone said to him ‘This too shall pass’?” Roth asked his biographer. “ ‘Nothing passes.’ Put that in the fucking book.”
“Gossip as gospel, the national faith. McCarthyism is the beginning not just of serious politics but of serious everything as entertainment to amuse the mass audience.”
