"The terror of the unforeseen is what the……" — Philip Roth
"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic."
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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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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it…
— Bashar al-Assad
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
— Lauren Bacall
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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are…
— Christian Bale
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
— Martha Beck
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially…
— Jello Biafra
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at…
— Joe Biden
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a…
— Jo Bonner
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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