"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one……" — Philip Roth

"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war."

— 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 Fond Quotes

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The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or… — Lord Acton
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity. — Erykah Badu
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise… — Honore de Balzac
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who… — Antonio Banderas
I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept. — Drew Barrymore
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is… — John Berger
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it… — Sarah Bernhardt
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably… — Anthony Bourdain
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work… — Russell Brand

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