Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image ““Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.”” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.” — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.” — David Kessler Copy Share Image
“Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.” — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.” — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
