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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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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Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself
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Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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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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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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As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.
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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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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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It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
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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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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
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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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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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Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.
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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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Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
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Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
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Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.
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There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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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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