Best Philip Roth Words
- That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they… Admiration
- Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. Inspirational
- Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it. All
- A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! Alive
- He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything… Accessible
- You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you. Force
- We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be… Abuse
- Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. Bad
- Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were… Always Perfect
- There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way. Comes Hold
- Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve… Achieve
- I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what… Chaos
- I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over… Body
- 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 washed… Demand
- The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you… Bargained
- You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for… Attribute
- I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! Everywhere
- When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place. Believe
- To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats;… Brand
- I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was… Admit
- History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Awake
- With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life… Been
- A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. Crazy
- Nothing keeps its promise. Keeps
- When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters,… Czech
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