Be a slave Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image “I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be a slave Books Literature Slave Wish
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew… — Isaac Newton 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
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
