"I came to New York and in only……" — Philip Roth
"I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out."
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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 Awakened Quotes
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the…
— Chanakya
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
— Immanuel Kant
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
— Nhat Hanh
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may…
— Winston Churchill
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
— Dogen
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What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha…
— Shinjo Ito
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May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace…
— Surya Das
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The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
— Nikola Tesla
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