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It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Philip Roth
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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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I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.
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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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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
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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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Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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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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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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I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.
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You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
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Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
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