"History... is a nightmare from which I am…" — Philip Roth

"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

— 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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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the… — Honore de Balzac
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. — Lewis Black
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself… — Dale Carnegie
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In… — Marc Chagall
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's… — Harlan Coben
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we… — Dan Wakefield

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