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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces. — 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
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
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
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
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 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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