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From Quotes by Philip Roth
- I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn…
- Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
- It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
- Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires…
- Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an…
- He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
- 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…
- 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…
- History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to 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…
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