I think at this moment, in the absence of Bellow, that Roth is the most courageous American writer. There's nothing he's afraid to say.
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If the soul is the mind at its purest, best, clearest, busiest, profoundest, ... then Bellow's charge has been to restore the soul to American literature.Cynthia Ozick
Wondrous hole Magical hole Dazzlingly influential hole Noble and effulgent hole From this hole everything follows logically first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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