Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
feelings phrases said
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
loyalty daughter intelligent
Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself
trouble
How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
hate crime knows
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.
drawing yesterday people
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration
loyalty baseball strong
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.
trying misery stage
At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.
pain people secret
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...
punishment suffering
It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
discipline orbit oneself
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
wind people world
I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?
commitment interviews ordeals
The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10
self silence mind
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.