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Up 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…
- What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.…
- It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind…
- It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to…
- Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to…
- Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue…
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
- In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
- People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who…
- Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
- 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…
- I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong