Quotes by Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Philip Roth

American Novelist

Lived from: 1933 - 2018

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 march 1933 Died: 22 may 2018

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  • Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
    Zuckerman Unbound (2013)
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  • Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
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  • Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
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  • Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
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  • The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
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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)
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  • The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
    My Life as a Writer (2014)
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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 road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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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)
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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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  • There are no uncontaminated angels.
    Shop Talk (2001)
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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)
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  • 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)
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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 read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading.
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  • Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
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  • Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
    The Dying Animal (2001)
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