"Actually we did not have the feelings we……" — Philip Roth
"Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look…
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your…
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol,…
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the…
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies…
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
— Saint Augustine
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but…
— Irving Babbitt
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
— Lauren Bacall
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
— Lauren Bacall
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
— Erykah Badu
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
— Amy Adams
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
— Andre Balazs
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