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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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