Quotes 101 till 120 of 146.
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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.
The Human Stain (2000) -
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
My Life as a Writer (2014) -
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
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The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
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The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
The Human Stain (2000) -
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
The Plot Against America (2004) -
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
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There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
The Counterlife (2013) -
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.
Everyman (2006) -
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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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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To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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