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Life 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…
- Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced…
- I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it…
- A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
- Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
- I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it…
- Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can…
- My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to…
- Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me…
- You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're…
- Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What…
- In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
- And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
- How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
- As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number…
- 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…
- Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were…
- You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed…
- 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…
- The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle