The Dying Animal

by Philip Roth
United States
Born on 19 Mar 1933
Writer

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Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks. There's nothing new about them at all. They're people.

The Dying Animal
Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.

The Dying Animal
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

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You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

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Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

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The only obsession everyone wants: love. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

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