"Being in the dark from sentence to sentence……" — Philip Roth
"Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
Philip Roth has 126 quotes on this site.
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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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More Convince Quotes
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children…
— Brigitte Bardot
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they…
— Adele
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to…
— Jeff Bezos
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
— Josh Billings
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know,…
— Eric Clapton
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
— John Henrik Clarke
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience…
— Marina Abramovic
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