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All i can tell you with certainty is that i, for one, have no self, and that i am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. what i have instead is a variety of impersonations i can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that i have internalised, a permanent company of actors that i can call upon when a self is required. i am a theater and nothing more than a theater.
-Philip Roth
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All I Can Tell You With Certainty

Philip Roth
All i can tell you with certainty is that i, for one, have no self, and that i am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. what i have instead is a variety of impersonations i can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that i have internalised, a permanent company of actors that i can call upon when a self is required. i am a theater and nothing more than a theater.
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