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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? - Philip Roth Quotes

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

American Novelist Human

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets / no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! - Philip Roth Quotes

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets / no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist Fear

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. - Philip Roth Quotes

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

American Novelist

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. - Philip Roth Quotes

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. - Philip Roth Quotes

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century, - Philip Roth Quotes

Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century,

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. - 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.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. - Philip Roth Quotes

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

American Novelist

The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die - Philip Roth Quotes

The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters - Philip Roth Quotes

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles / and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech / look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. - Philip Roth Quotes

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles / and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech / look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. - Philip Roth Quotes

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. - Philip Roth Quotes

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. - Philip Roth Quotes

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

American Novelist War

Some people have been reluctant to call this a bull market, because it's nothing like the 1990s. But it is a bull market -- it's just nothing like the 1990s. - Philip Roth Quotes

Some people have been reluctant to call this a bull market, because it's nothing like the 1990s. But it is a bull market -- it's just nothing like the 1990s.

There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market. - Philip Roth Quotes

There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market.

Hell

Should you protect profits? Yes, ... But run for the hills? No. - Philip Roth Quotes

Should you protect profits? Yes, ... But run for the hills? No.

The fact that a stock like Microsoft could fall so much is a sign that there is very little investment activity in the market. It is a symptom of the domination of traders and hedge funds in the market. - Philip Roth Quotes

The fact that a stock like Microsoft could fall so much is a sign that there is very little investment activity in the market. It is a symptom of the domination of traders and hedge funds in the market.

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. - Philip Roth Quotes

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

apprentice work. - Philip Roth Quotes

apprentice work.

Work

I was back in touch with my place, - Philip Roth Quotes

I was back in touch with my place,

The Academy tends to like to mix the expected with the unexpected choices, - Philip Roth Quotes

The Academy tends to like to mix the expected with the unexpected choices,

It's an admission of the books into perpetuity. - Philip Roth Quotes

It's an admission of the books into perpetuity.

Books And Reading

strong-minded and independent. - Philip Roth Quotes

strong-minded and independent.

It seemed pretty reckless and vicious. I was just trying to depict the way it was, the way it sounded, what they talked about. This was just what I observed or imagined. - Philip Roth Quotes

It seemed pretty reckless and vicious. I was just trying to depict the way it was, the way it sounded, what they talked about. This was just what I observed or imagined.

The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living. - Philip Roth Quotes

The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No. - Philip Roth Quotes

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

American Novelist

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Fame

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 Quotes

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

American Novelist

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! - Philip Roth Quotes

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. - Philip Roth Quotes

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

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