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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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Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming.…
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Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it.…
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things…
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children.…
— Quentin Bryce
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.
— Philip Roth
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Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things.…
— Novala Takemoto
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