Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image ““I’m looking at myself,” he said, ecstatically, “except it’s you.”” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I lean in and look at myself, and it's not my face but someone else's” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself," she offered . . . He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself," she said and then laughed maniacally, "but God knows who I am.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He gives me a look. I'm not even looking at him and I can feel it.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“My looks are other peoples' problem because I don't have to look at myself.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
“I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself.' '...You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“You're staring." "Can't 'elp meself, he replied. You were made to be stared at.” — Bec McMaster Copy Share Image
“I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.” — Susan Sontag 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
