Philip Roth Quotes

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

Jim Ratcliffe

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It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

Jesse Ventura

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I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

Shirley MacLaine

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You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Robert Crippen

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I'm more to my family than a wonderful, luminous cook. I'm also a wonderful, luminous butler and a wonderful, luminous chauffer. And checkbook. I'm a luminous checkbook, too.

MaryJanice Davidson

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I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Michael Pena

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I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

Louis C. K.

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The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

Doug TenNapel

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A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

Apollo Robbins

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I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Swizz Beatz

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