Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
alive sides nasty
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
alive life-is periods
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
people alive facts
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
men parent alive
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
alive boy die jewish man parents remain until
The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die
academy choice expected mix tends unexpected
The Academy tends to like to mix the expected with the unexpected choices,
activity domination fact fall funds investment microsoft sign stock symptom traders
The fact that a stock like Microsoft could fall so much is a sign that there is very little investment activity in the market. It is a symptom of the domination of traders and hedge funds in the market.
fun people unjust
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
character men envy
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.
everybody graduated life plain running stop
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.
history nightmare trying
History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
experience fiction species
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
together twain
Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century,