Best Philip Roth Quotations
- The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise.… Begin
- You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're… All
- Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What… Always Wrong
- Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not. Becomes
- In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Childhood
- Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more Center
- And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into. Into
- People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who… Any
- How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. Easy
- Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. Growing
- American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… All
- I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and… Act
- The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. Contender
- How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble? Beginning
- As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number… America
- It's best to give while your hand is still warm. Best
- He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. Entering
- I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface All
- You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And… Awful
- I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. Biographies
- There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you… All
- Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that --… Inspirational
- This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you. Castigates
- a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a… Ambition
- And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… Biographies
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