Philip Roth Quotes

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.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 19, 1933 - May 22, 2018

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LifeCollegeDirectionYouStopTwo

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Jennifer Egan

GreatMindMeIdeasWritingThink

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Meir Soloveichik

DayBookYearThroughHighIsrael

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Sun Myung Moon

GovernmentControlYouSayDaughters

I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

Sonny Bill Williams

MyselfFeelYoungProveAbilityFit

I don't do bugs.

Simone Biles

Bugs

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Tom Waits

MusicChildrenCultureManSinging

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

LifeFightSlaveryActionReaction

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Ronald Lauder

PowerDoneUpHardestGivenThing

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

Judith Light

PeopleYouGayKnowTransgender

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Dennis Farina

AmericanYouRightJustFarKids

My private life became public.

Brigitte Bardot

LifePrivate LifePublicPrivate

You can never take Madrid for dead.

Sergio Ramos

YouDeadNeverTakeMadrid

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