Reality Quote by Philip Roth

“There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.”

Philip Roth

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“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.”

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“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.”

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The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

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“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.”

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“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!”

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I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

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