"Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't……" — Philip Roth

"Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind."

— Philip Roth

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126 Quotes by Philip Roth

Philip Roth has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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…
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look…
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your…
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol,…
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 Confession Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As… — Saint Basil
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed… — Josh Billings
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due… — William J. Brennan
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good… — Giacomo Casanova
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne

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