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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

From Tama Janowitz

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

From Tama Janowitz

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

From Tama Janowitz

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

From Tama Janowitz

With publicity comes humiliation.

From Tama Janowitz

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

From Tama Janowitz

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

From Tama Janowitz

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

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