| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47289 |
| QUOTATION: | Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Philip Roth (b. 1933), U.S. novelist. “Cunt Crazy,” Portnoy’s Complaint (1967). |
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