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Philip Roth
American
March 19, 1933
Novelist
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
Philip Roth
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Friends
Closest
Sheer
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Philip Roth
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Age
Old
Battle
Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
Philip Roth
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You
Should
Run
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
Philip Roth
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Anger
People
Lot
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Philip Roth
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History
Which
Am
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
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You
World
Book
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
Philip Roth
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More
Know
Even
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Philip Roth
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Time
You
Just
I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
Philip Roth
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Really
Life
Lot
I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
Philip Roth
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Like
About
Just
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth
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Experience
Imagination
You
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
Philip Roth
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Women
Would
Go
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.
Philip Roth
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You
Me
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