"When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred……" — Philip Roth
"When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
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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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More Czech Quotes
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But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult…
— Ivan Lendl
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Ours is a war not against a religion, not against the Muslim faith. But ours is a war against individuals…
— George W. Bush
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I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied,…
— Woody Hayes
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But definitely I was in the zone in the match today. I was still thinking it's the final and I…
— Petra Kvitova
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She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually.
— Petra Kvitova
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Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I…
— Vaclav Havel
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We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat…
— Kasey Keller
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I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The…
— Claudio Reyna
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I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
— Martina Hingis
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my…
— Ernest Gellner
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We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe…
— Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a…
— Jeffrey Jones
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