Phrase by 'Philip Roth'

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

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Being , Human Being , Misunderstanding


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

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Age , Old , Old Age , Battle


For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Me , Time , America , War


Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Friends , Seriousness , Deadly , Closest


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.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Home , Army , Apple , Temple


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

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  You , World , Book , Publish


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.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  More , Up , Fear , Greed


With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Life , You , College , Boring


Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  You , Me , Man , Father


I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

Author: Philip Roth - American Novelist
  Good , Culture , Future , Aesthetic


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