It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls?… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share
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… — Philip Roth Copy Share
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share
“Doctor Spielvogel, it alleviates nothing fixing the blame - blaming is still ailing, of course, of course - but nonetheless, what was it with… — Philip Roth Copy Share
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but… — Philip Roth Copy Share
![“American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as…” quote by Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/930/philip-roth-681_american-society_american-society-not-only-sanctions-gros_771264.jpg)
