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It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
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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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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The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time.
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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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Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.
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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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There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
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Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
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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'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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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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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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Let's hope the first comes first.
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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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Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.
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The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
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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 tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
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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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--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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