Goodbye, Columbus

by Philip Roth
United States
Born on 19 Mar 1933
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I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
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Goodbye, Columbus

Philip Roth

 

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