Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. (Philip Roth)

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Philip Roth

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