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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!
         

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


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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.



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



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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.



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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.



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

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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.

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.





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