The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing… — 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
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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