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Famous Philip Roth Quotes
“Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
“I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.”
“Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.”
“Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.”
“People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.”
“It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.”
“The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10”
“Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.”
“Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.”
“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”
“For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.”
“For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.”
“There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.”
“Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.”
“There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.”
“It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.”
“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”