Philip Roth Quotes
...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.
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I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.
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The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs. (p. 304)
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...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
