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Philip Roth
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 18
Died: 2018
Died: May 22
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Science Fiction Writer
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Newark
New Jersey
Philip Milton Roth
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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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--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's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
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It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
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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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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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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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There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
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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 think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
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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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It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
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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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In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
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