“Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.”
Philip Roth book American Pastoral
Source: American Pastoral
Quotes from bookAmerican Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk".
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
Philip Roth book American Pastoral
Source: American Pastoral
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
Philip Roth book American Pastoral
Source: American Pastoral
