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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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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way…
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There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit…
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...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the…
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental…
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American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.…
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