Philip Roth Citas

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

  Philip Roth

  Age, Battle, Massacres

  Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

  Philip Roth

  Lessons, Worst, Teach

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 27, 2011

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• All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

  Philip Roth

  Knowing, Knows, Astonishing

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Philip Roth

  Love You, Telling The Truth, Force

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, January 12, 1969.

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• The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

  Philip Roth

  Hatred, Danger, Hundred

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

  Philip Roth

  Growing Up, Thinking, Worry

  "The Dying Animal". Book by Philip Roth, 2001.

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• The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

  Philip Roth

  Love, Fall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jan 22, 2017

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• I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.

  Philip Roth

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  "The Ghost Writer". Book by Philip Roth, 1979.

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• You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

  Philip Roth

  Taste, Enough, Given

  Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Commitment, Use

  "Philip Roth Goes Home Again" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 7, 2010.

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• El camino al infierno está empedrado de obras en curso.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• Hay algo que toda mujer quiere, y es un hombre al que culpar.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Want, Blame

  Philip Roth (2013). “The Counterlife”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Los recuerdos del pasado no son recuerdos de hechos, sino recuerdos de su imaginación de los hechos.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Past, Facts

  Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

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• Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

  Philip Roth

  Alive, Life Is, Periods

  "Phillip Noyce and Ewan McGregor Jump on Philip Roth’s ‘American Pastoral’ – But Is It a Good Idea?" by Ryan Lattanzio, www.indiewire.com. June 23, 2014.

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• 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

  Reading, Fiction, Noise

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 17, 2011

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• When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

  Philip Roth

  Believe, Religion, World

  "Philip Roth on Fame, Sex and God". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2010.

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• It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

  Philip Roth

  Real, Mentira, Gente

  Philip Roth (1985). “Reading myself and others”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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

  Philip Roth

  Hands, Giving, Stills

  Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, People, Secret

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

  Philip Roth

  Conoce

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• 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

  Reality, Way

  Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

  Philip Roth

  Rooms, Pleasure, Persons

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A menos que a uno le guste desmesuradamente la subordinación, siempre está en guerra.

  Philip Roth

  War, Affection, Subordination

  Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

  Philip Roth

  Materials, Happens

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• Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

  Philip Roth

  Fun, Games, Faces

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Mar 19, 2013

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