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It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.
— Philip Roth
I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.
— Philip Roth
The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.
— Philip Roth
At the outset of my mature life, before everything suddenly became so difficult, I had a great talent for being satisfied. I'd
— Philip Roth
There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness - not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it.
— Philip Roth
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
— Philip Roth
Self-laceration is never more than a memory away
— Philip Roth
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
— Philip Roth
When he is sick, every man wants his mother.
— Philip Roth
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
— Philip Roth
In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.
— Philip Roth
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
— Philip Roth
War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night
— Philip Roth
Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
— Philip Roth
Let's hope the first comes first.
— Philip Roth
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
— Philip Roth
Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
— Jacqueline Susann
Steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions ...
— Philip Roth
I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let's leave it at that.
— Philip Roth
Old age isn't a battle: old age is a massacre.
— Philip Roth
People think of history in the long term, but history, in fact, it's a very sudden thing.
— Philip Roth
YEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility
— Philip Roth
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
— Philip Roth
Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.
— Philip Roth
Nothing keeps its promise.
— Philip Roth
The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.
— Philip Roth
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?
— Philip Roth
There are no uncontaminated angels
— Philip Roth
The only patient being treated by the writer is himself
— Philip Roth
Why, emotionally, is a man of his type reciprocally connected to a woman of her type? The usual reason: their flaws fit.
— Philip Roth
We'll go to the most posh gynecologist in New York. One who gets Harper's Bazaar for the reception room. How does that sound?
— Philip Roth
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.
— Philip Roth
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
— Philip Roth
He was no more, freed frombeing, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. — Philip Roth
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
— Philip Roth
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
— Philip Roth
Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
— Philip Roth
I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.
— Philip Roth
He couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
— Philip Roth
Simple is never that simple.
— Philip Roth
I did the best I could with what I had.
— Philip Roth
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
— Philip Roth
vowing himself to "just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." After
— Philip Roth
There's no remaking reality ... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.
— Philip Roth
Even a monster has to be from somewhere - even a monster needs parents. But parents don't need monsters.
— Philip Roth
And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
— Philip Roth
The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
— Philip Roth
The burden isn't that everything has to be a book. It's that everything can be a book. And doesn't count as life until it is.
— Philip Roth
No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That's what you get for a couplet.
— Philip Roth
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
— Philip Roth
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
— Philip Roth
The phallic dignity, of a powerhouse of a warrior prince, is how the great imaginative literature of Europe begins,
— Philip Roth
The ending is immense. Tell it plainly".
— Philip Roth
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
— Philip Roth
