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"I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the televisio..." — Philip Roth

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth Novelist • American
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