"Oh, to be a center fielder, a center……" — Philip Roth
"Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more"
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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 Center Quotes
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one of 1,632 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
— Hans Bender
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would…
— Michael Bloomberg
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