Best Philip Roth Sayings
- I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is… Daily
- It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later. Human
- It's amazing how much punishment we can take. Amazing
- All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. All
- Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. Alive
- Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. Age
- Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic… Concentration
- I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time… Actually Trying
- I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out. Awakened
- Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid Doctor
- He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Inspirational
- I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it… Life
- You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. Annihilate
- Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them… Feelings
- Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts. Inspirational
- Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. All
- --nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others Determine
- Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just… Courageous
- Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can… Adolescent
- My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to… Aim
- Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me… All
- The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong… Alive
- Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can… Along
- You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. Cannot Observe
- There are no uncontaminated angels Angel
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