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Philip Roth has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
• The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
• 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…
• Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
• Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
• I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…
• I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience.…
• What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…
• A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew…
• 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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