Philip Roth ,quotes

All that we don't know is asto...

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Life is just a short period of...

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Old age isn't a battle; old ag...

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

You have a conscience, and a c...

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

I am the Raskolnikov of jerkin...

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off Ђ' the sticky evidence is everywhere!

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

When the whole world doesn't b...

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

To become a celebrity is to be...

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

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I think you're a wonder. You'r...

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

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Is an intelligent human being ...

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Literature takes a habit of mi...

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

I don't ask writers about thei...

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, 'Is he as crazy as I am?' I don't need that question answered.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

I came to New York and in only...

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Doctor doctor, what do you say...

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

The signore...wishes her to be...

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

I write fiction and I'm told i...

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Memories of the past are not m...

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

He had learned the worst lesso...

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

I turn sentences around. That'...

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

You put too much stock in huma...

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

Actually we did not have the f...

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Philip Roth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 185 quotes

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