Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image ““Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.”” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He pats you on the shoulder. “We’re lucky,” he said. “We got to have this time, and we didn’t ruin anyone’s life in the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.” — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“This was the affair which had ended quietly and decently, without fuss or scenes or hysteria. When you were nineteen, and it was the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“when affairs are difficult, and when it seems that they could not be worse, they inevitably become so.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to pull off… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
“Don't overreact. For example, if someone inadvertently embarrasses you in public, don't let anger get the best of you. It really isn't necessary to… — Anthony Rubino Jr 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
