"Nothing keeps its promise." — Philip Roth

Nothing keeps its promise. - Philip Roth

"Nothing keeps its promise."

— 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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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A… — Mary Kay Ash
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — Francis Bacon
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out… — Dave Barry
I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place… — Drew Barrymore
One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's… — Scott Adams
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in… — Martha Beck
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness… — Joseph Addison
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin… — Arnold Bennett

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