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For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

-Philip Roth

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For A Pure Sense Of Being Tumultuously

Philip Roth

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

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