"Literature takes a habit of mind that has……" — Philip Roth
"Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing."
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Philip Roth
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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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're…
— Lisa Bonet
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The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the…
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
— Andrew Carnegie
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest,…
— Jimmy Carter
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I…
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an…
— Noam Chomsky
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of…
— Noam Chomsky
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
— Paulo Coelho
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