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Philip Roth
American
Novelist
About the author
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Being
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#World
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#War
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Hell
#Road
Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Dying
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#History
#Trying
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Fear
#Greed
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Man
#Parents
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Home
#Army
#Temple
#Judaism
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth,
American
Novelist
#Past
#Imagination
#Experience
#Facts
#Memories