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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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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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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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The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
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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 know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
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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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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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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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In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
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You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
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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 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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A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
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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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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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The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.
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Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.
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It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
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