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Book: The Counterlife
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
Pensando na morte de seu irmão - e no ataque mortal do pai - me peguei comparando aquele sorriso seu com um curativo sobre uma ferida. {p.75}
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
If you're from New Jersey," Nathan had said, "and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after your death they'll decide to name a rest stop for you on the Jersey Turnpike. And so, long after you're gone, you may indeed be remembered, but mostly by small children, in the backs of cars, when they lean forward and tell their parents, 'Stop, please, stop at Zuckerman-I have to make a pee.' For a New Jersey novelist that's as much immortality as it's realistic to hope for.
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
Nathan called all shiksas Maria--the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
But it is INTERESTING trying to get a handle on one's own subjectivity--something to think about, to play around with, and what's more fun than that?
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
There is no you, Maria, any more than there is a me. There is only this way that we have established over the months of performing together, and what it is congruent with isn't "ourselves" but past performances--we're has-beens at heart, routinely trotting out the old, old act."
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
In short, dozens of conflicting, truncated impressions were already teasing to be understood, but the wisest course seemed to me to keep them to myself so long as I didn't begin to know what they added up to.
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
Why can't Jews with their Jewish problems be human beings with their human problems?
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Philip Roth _ The Counterlife
No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this drama for the sake of your fiction. Oh, darling, the hell with your fiction.
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