"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress." — Philip Roth

"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

— 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.
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!
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a…

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More Hell Quotes

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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. — Bea Arthur
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was… — David Attenborough
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got… — Christian Bale
I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an… — Christian Bale
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. — Charles Barkley
If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley

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