"The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The……" — Philip Roth

"The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you."

— 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 Contender Quotes

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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I… — Usain Bolt
Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. — Sylvester Stallone
"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to… — William Montgomery Watt
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback… — David Suzuki
If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender… — Stuart Rothenberg
We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. — Whitey Herzog
Until you announce me as the #1 contender for the WWE Championship, I suggest you watch me make snow angels. — CM Punk
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville. — Budd Schulberg
I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but… — Jon Gordon
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the… — Garry Kasparov
Let The Rock understand this, he beats your ass in cage match last week and now your the number 1… — Dwayne Johnson
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a… — Hilary Mantel

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