Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
sex matter corruption
How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.
men want blame
There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
jobs father ambition
a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.
mother men sick
When he is sick, every man wants his mother.
war subordination
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
book world publish
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
book writing ashes
Each book starts from ashes.
children believe winter
When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
reality kitchen tables
And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania
home army glasses
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.
believe knowledge knowing
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
believe religion world
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
new-york people doe
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
men littles questions-and-answers
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.