Philip Roth Quotes
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I guess I crave stability.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.
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I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
