• The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist 1933-2018
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. happen-somebody
2. everything
3. manners
4. comes
5. truth
6. table

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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners. by : Philip Roth

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