"Doctor, I had never had anybody like her……" — Philip Roth
"Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright."
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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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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
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