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Philip Roth
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 18
Died: 2018
Died: May 22
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Philip Milton Roth
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And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
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No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.
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I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
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Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
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The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
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You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
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When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
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--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
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There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
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It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
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I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
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You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.
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It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
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A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
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Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
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I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.
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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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