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Philip Roth
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 18
Died: 2018
Died: May 22
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There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
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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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A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
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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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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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I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
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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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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
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Let's hope the first comes first.
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One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
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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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Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.
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It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
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I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
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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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Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
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We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
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