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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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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry…
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to…
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It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is…
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Some pushers are way better than others.
— Dick Trickle
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Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to…
— Unknown Author
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When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk.…
— Gavin MacLeod
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It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and…
— Philip Roth
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Pushers don't pay taxes.
— Big Daddy Kane
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I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace.
— Sarah Silverman
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
— Doris Lessing
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