"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about…" — Philip Roth

"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up."

— 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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More Growing Quotes

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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth.… — Julian Assange
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than… — Chinua Achebe
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses… — Margaret Atwood
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons… — Diane Ackerman
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what… — Michele Bachmann
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;… — Cleveland Abbe
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial… — Russell Baker
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is… — James A. Baldwin
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball

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