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Philip Roth Quotes

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Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown  (Philip Roth Quotes) You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn’t annihilate human nature  (Philip Roth Quotes) Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts  (Philip Roth Quotes) You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you  (Philip Roth Quotes) History. Is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake  (Philip Roth Quotes) How easy life is when it’s easy, and how hard when it’s hard  (Philip Roth Quotes) People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun  (Philip Roth Quotes) The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses  (Philip Roth Quotes) ... Her breasts swam towards me like two pink nosed fish and she let me hold them  (Philip Roth Quotes) Why must he mistrust his life just when he was more its master than he’d been in years?  (Philip Roth Quotes) It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, momma, do we believe in winter?  (Philip Roth Quotes) Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts  (Philip Roth Quotes) When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it  (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  (Philip Roth Quotes) All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing  (Philip Roth Quotes) Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not  (Philip Roth Quotes) Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it  (Philip Roth Quotes) You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you  (Philip Roth Quotes) Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts  (Philip Roth Quotes) I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there’s a paragraph that’s alive  (Philip Roth Quotes) It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces  (Philip Roth Quotes) Don’t judge it. Just write it. Don’t judge it. It’s not for you to judge it  (Philip Roth Quotes) For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can’t beat the nasty side of existence  (Philip Roth Quotes) For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one’s orbit  (Philip Roth Quotes) There were many hours when I never quite know how I’d gotten there or why I stayed  (Philip Roth Quotes) It’s human to have a secret, but it’s just as human to reveal it sooner or later  (Philip Roth Quotes) The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic  (Philip Roth Quotes) A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons  (Philip Roth Quotes)
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