"You can no more make someone tell the……" — Philip Roth
"You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you."
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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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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
— Saint Augustine
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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