Quotes by Philip Roth with history

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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  • Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
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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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  • The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
    The Plot Against America (2004)
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