“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.”

—  Philip Roth, book The Dying Animal

Source: The Dying Animal

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American novelist 1933–2018

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