Philip Roth - No matter how much you know, no matter how much you t

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

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Roth, Philip. The Dying Animal. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

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