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Philip Roth has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and…
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience.…
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew…
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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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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season,…
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an…
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in…
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the…
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
— Jim Cornette
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…
— Philip Roth
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS…
— Marianne Williamson
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago…
— Ted Nugent
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the…
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