Years Quotes by Philip Roth

8 Years quotes by Philip Roth

Philip Roth’s brief selection of thoughts on years provides a literary snapshot of his view on aging, memory, and history. The eight quotes pack his characteristic wit and introspection into a tight bundle.

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With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two…

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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

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Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating…

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I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,…

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When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,…

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I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

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I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at…

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Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50…

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“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…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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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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