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  1. Philip Roth _ The Professor of Desire

    How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
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  2. Philip Roth _ The Professor of Desire

    In a burst of calculated sincerity-miscalculated sincerity, it turns out-I tell one of the girls how the sight of her breasts pressing against her arms had led me to wish I were those arms. And is this so different, I ask, pushing on with the charm, from Romeo, beneath Juliet's balcony, whispering, "See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:/ O! That I were a glove upon that hand,/ That I might touch that cheek." Apparently it is quite different.
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  3. Philip Roth _ The Professor of Desire

    Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar.
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