Philip Roth Quote

His mother had died at eighty, his father at ninety. Aloud he said to them,I'm seventy-one. Your boy is seventy-one. Good. You lived, his mother replied, and his father said, Look back and atone for what you can atone for, and make the best of what you have left.

Philip Roth

His mother had died at eighty, his father at ninety. Aloud he said to them,I'm seventy-one. Your boy is seventy-one. Good. You lived, his mother replied, and his father said, Look back and atone for what you can atone for, and make the best of what you have left.

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