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Philip Roth The Ghostwriter

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Page three and I already want to quote it.
“Purity. Serenity. Simplicity. Seclusion.  All one’s concentration and flamboyance and originality reserved for  the grueling, exalted, transcendent calling.  I looked around and I thought,  this is how I will live.”

(Zuckerman discussing the living conditions of a literary mentor.)

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