Love Quotes by Philip Roth

8 Love quotes by Philip Roth

Philip Roth’s sharp wit and deep introspection color his view of love. These eight concise lines blend cynicism with tenderness, offering a nuanced portrait of the feeling.

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“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for…

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“Worship me, she says, worship the mistery of the bleeding goddess, and you do it. You stop at nothing. You lick it.…

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Let's hope the first comes first.

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The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

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“Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in…

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I did the best I could with what I had.

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Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

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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?…

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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

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“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.”

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“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.”

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The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

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“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.”

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“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!”

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I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

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“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…

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