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Philip Roth

Philip Roth

American Novelist

Lived from: 1933 - 2018

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 march 1933 Died: 22 may 2018

  • The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
  • There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.
  • I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
  • Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
  • 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.
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  • It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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  • Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
    The facts: a novelist's autobiography (1989)
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  • Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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