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“A real moonlight serenade under the stars. Say what you want about me, but I am romantic.”

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

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“To those not yet old, being old means you’ve been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in excess of your beenness, you still are. Your beenness is very much alive. You still are, and one is as haunted by the still-being and its fullness as by the having-already-been, by the pastness. Think of old age this way: it’s just an everyday fact that one’s life is at stake.”

Age Difference Philip Roth The Dying Animal

Book:The Dying Animal

Source: The Dying Animal

“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.”

Americans American Literature Philip Roth Paul Auster Robert Mccrum

Author:Don DeLillo

“One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you.”

Life Past Story Philip Roth The Prague Orgy

Author:Philip Roth

“Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread?”

Philip Roth

Book:Portnoy’s Complaint

Source: Portnoy’s Complaint

“L’immagine che abbiamo l’uno dell’altro. Strati e strati d’incomprensione. L’immagine che abbiamo di noi stessi. Vana. Presuntuosa. Completamente distorta. Ma noi tiriamo dritto e viviamo di queste immagini. «Lei è così, lui è così, io sono così. È andata così per questi motivi…» Basta.”

Psychology American Literature Jewish Identity Philip Roth

Book:American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“[...] è la mancanza di rabbia che finisce per uccidere. Mentre l'aggressività depura e guarisce.”

Anger American Literature Philip Roth

Book:American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“Sembrava non capire o, anche in un momento di stanchezza, non ammettere che avere dei limiti non era poi una cosa così vergognosa, e che lui stesso non era una casa di pietra di centosettant'anni, il cui peso gravasse su imperturbabili travi di quercia: che era, insomma, qualcosa di più transitorio e misterioso.”

American Literature Philip Roth Human Limitations Interior Struggle

Book:American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“Sì, siamo soli, profondamente soli, e in serbo per noi, sempre, c’è uno strato di solitudine ancora più profondo. Non c’è nulla che possiamo fare per liberarcene. No, la solitudine non dovrebbe stupirci, per sorprendente che possa essere farne l’esperienza. Puoi cercare di tirar fuori tutto quello che hai dentro, ma allora non sarai altro che questo: vuoto e solo anziché pieno e solo.”

American Literature Jewish Identity Philip Roth Loniliness

Book:American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.”

Existence Philip Roth

Book:Sabbath's Theater

Source: Sabbath's Theater

“We continue our dance until the song ends, and we stay in the same position as she looks at the stars and I at her. I don’t need to see the stars when the most marvelous one is standing right in front of me with her arms around my neck.”

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Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

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