Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
“His mother called them his gems and often asked him why he liked things that were worn and old. It would have been hard to tell her. But there was something about the way in which the link of a chain was worn or the thread on a bolt or a castor-wheel that gave him a vague feeling of pain… — Henry Roth Copy Share
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality,… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
