"Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and……" — Philip Roth

"Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown."

— 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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. — Edward Abbey
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Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up. — Javier Bardem
If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. — Mario Batali
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. — Josh Billings
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part. — Juliette Binoche
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So… — Larry Bird
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