Philip Roth Quotes
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
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The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
