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Kids once confined to the inner city started seeing lifestyles other than the street.


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PHILIP ROTH With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduate...
PHILIP ROTH Comments that an apology was not offered quick enough are dead wrong. I believed that those attendin...
LARRY ROTH Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
PHILIP ROTH Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as...
ERIC ROTH Roth acts to protect Dover AFB.
WILLIAM ROTH Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real...
ELI ROTH We are holding these hearings because one thing is certain. We can't fix the IRS without knowing wha...
WILLIAM ROTH I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
TIM ROTH Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the d...
CAROL ROTH Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
VERONICA ROTH That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for y...
PHILIP ROTH I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.
“Who cares about everyo...
VERONICA ROTH Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
VERONICA ROTH Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets...
VERONICA ROTH People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you und...
VERONICA ROTH For me, acting's just great fun. A lot more fun than making sculptures, so that's what I wanted to d...
TIM ROTH His hands shift to my shoulders, and his fingers brush over the edge of my bandage. He pulls back wi...
VERONICA ROTH