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Philip Roth Quote: “The drug calmed his soul, but did not touch it down where the blackness had reached.”

251. “The drug calmed his soul, but did not touch it down where the blackness had reached.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “La vejez no es una batalla; la vejez es una masacre.”

252. “La vejez no es una batalla; la vejez es una masacre.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “It’s not being angry that’s important, it’s being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That’s its survival function. That’s why it’s given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.”

253. “It’s not being angry that’s important, it’s being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That’s its survival function. That’s why it’s given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.”

254. “You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “I’ll be curious to see how we all come out someday. It could be an interesting story. You’re not so nice and polite in your fiction,” he said. “You’re a different person.”

255. “I’ll be curious to see how we all come out someday. It could be an interesting story. You’re not so nice and polite in your fiction,” he said. “You’re a different person.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “How could the sidewalk’s impassable leaf-strewn lagoons and the grassy little yards oozing from the flood of the downspouts exude a smell that roused my delight as if I’d been born in a tropical rain forest? Tinged with the bright after-storm light, Summit Avenue was as agleam with life as a pet, my own silky, pulsating pet, washed clean by sheets of falling water and now stretched its full length to bask in the bliss.”

256. “How could the sidewalk’s impassable leaf-strewn lagoons and the grassy little yards oozing from the flood of the downspouts exude a smell that roused my delight as if I’d been born in a tropical rain forest? Tinged with the bright after-storm light, Summit Avenue was as agleam with life as a pet, my own silky, pulsating pet, washed clean by sheets of falling water and now stretched its full length to bask in the bliss.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Why is it,” the unhappy teacher finally asked, “that for centuries people have hated you Jews?” Amy rose to her feet. She was stunned. “Don’t ask me that!” the girl said – “ask the madmen who hate us!” And she had nothing further to do with Miss Giddings as a friend – or with anyone else who asked her anything about what they couldn’t possibly understand.”

257. “Why is it,” the unhappy teacher finally asked, “that for centuries people have hated you Jews?” Amy rose to her feet. She was stunned. “Don’t ask me that!” the girl said – “ask the madmen who hate us!” And she had nothing further to do with Miss Giddings as a friend – or with anyone else who asked her anything about what they couldn’t possibly understand.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Ma, you want to see physical violence done to the Jews of Newark, go to the office of the plastic surgeon where the girls get their noses fixed. That’s where the Jewish blood flows in Essex County, that’s where the blow is delivered – with a mallet! To their bones – and to their pride!”

258. “Ma, you want to see physical violence done to the Jews of Newark, go to the office of the plastic surgeon where the girls get their noses fixed. That’s where the Jewish blood flows in Essex County, that’s where the blow is delivered – with a mallet! To their bones – and to their pride!”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.”

259. “Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends; it is with them that I take those walks in the country at the end of the day. I am also on friendly terms with Deadly Playfulness, Playful Playfulness, Serious Playfulness, Serious Seriousness, and Sheer Sheerness. From the last, however, I get nothing; he just wrings my heart and leaves me speechless.”

260. “Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends; it is with them that I take those walks in the country at the end of the day. I am also on friendly terms with Deadly Playfulness, Playful Playfulness, Serious Playfulness, Serious Seriousness, and Sheer Sheerness. From the last, however, I get nothing; he just wrings my heart and leaves me speechless.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Oh, I can’t believe this is you.” “It is me!” “But – what about your father’s love?” “I am on my own!”

261. “Oh, I can’t believe this is you.” “It is me!” “But – what about your father’s love?” “I am on my own!”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “He had seen how improbable it is that we should come from one another and how improbable it is that we do come from one another. Birth, succession, the generations, history – utterly improbable. He had seen that we don’t come from one another, that it only appears that we come from one another.”

262. “He had seen how improbable it is that we should come from one another and how improbable it is that we do come from one another. Birth, succession, the generations, history – utterly improbable. He had seen that we don’t come from one another, that it only appears that we come from one another.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “I don’t necessarily admire whom and what you choose to read and the gullibility with which you take at face value rationalist blasphemies spouted by an immoralist of the ilk of Bertrand Russell, four times married, a blatant adulterer, an advocate of free love, a self-confessed socialist dismissed from his university position for his antiwar campaigning during the First War and imprisoned for that by the British authorities.”

263. “I don’t necessarily admire whom and what you choose to read and the gullibility with which you take at face value rationalist blasphemies spouted by an immoralist of the ilk of Bertrand Russell, four times married, a blatant adulterer, an advocate of free love, a self-confessed socialist dismissed from his university position for his antiwar campaigning during the First War and imprisoned for that by the British authorities.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn’t know. That’s why he was devouring two or three books a day – to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.”

264. “Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn’t know. That’s why he was devouring two or three books a day – to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “They are crying intensely, the dependable father whose center is the source of all order, who could not overlook or sanction the smallest sign of chaos – for whom keeping chaos far at bay had been intuition’s chosen path to certainty, the rigorous daily given of life – and the daughter who is chaos itself.”

265. “They are crying intensely, the dependable father whose center is the source of all order, who could not overlook or sanction the smallest sign of chaos – for whom keeping chaos far at bay had been intuition’s chosen path to certainty, the rigorous daily given of life – and the daughter who is chaos itself.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Yes, if only this and if only that, we’d all be together and alive forever and everything would work out fine.”

266. “Yes, if only this and if only that, we’d all be together and alive forever and everything would work out fine.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “Pain is like a baby crying. What it wants it can’t name.”

267. “Pain is like a baby crying. What it wants it can’t name.”

— Philip Roth

Philip Roth Quote: “The life he described sounded like paradise to me; that he could think to do nothing better with his time than turn sentences around seemed to me a blessing bestowed not only upon him but upon world literature.”

268. “The life he described sounded like paradise to me; that he could think to do nothing better with his time than turn sentences around seemed to me a blessing bestowed not only upon him but upon world literature.”

— Philip Roth

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