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“nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others”

Philip Roth book The Plot Against America

Source: The Plot Against America

“You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.”

Philip Roth book Indignation

Source: Indignation

“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

“It's best to give while your hand is still warm.”

Philip Roth book Everyman

Source: Everyman

“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

Philip Roth book The Human Stain

Source: The Human Stain

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”

Philip Roth

“I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.”

Philip Roth book Portnoy's Complaint

Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

“There are no uncontaminated angels”

Philip Roth

“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

Philip Roth book Everyman

Source: Everyman (2006)

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”

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 book Everyman

Source: Everyman

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

Philip Roth

As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

Philip Roth book American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface”

Philip Roth book American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”

Philip Roth book The Ghost Writer

Source: The Ghost Writer