Best Philip Roth Quotes
- It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces. Amazing
- Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. Convince
- Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it. Inspirational
- Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. Closest
- We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's… Age
- The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL… Body
- I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully… Blissfully
- For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence. Alive
- I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it… Assure
- For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. Discipline
- There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed. Gotten
- Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue… Age
- 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 who… Accident
- Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. Art
- Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. Beats
- There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame. Blame
- It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge. Edge
- World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo… Arsenal
- A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way. Adventure
- When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. Book
- Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires… Arise
- Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an… Accountant
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy. Every Man
- Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! Art
- Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. Confession
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