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Philip Roth

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People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Philip Roth

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Doctor Spielvogel, this is my life, my only life, and I’m living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke—only it ain’t no joke!

Philip Roth

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For sex scenes, I just write about someone eating a sandwich and replace "ham & cheese hoagie" with "perfect breasts."

Philip Roth

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The radio was playing “Easter Parade” and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin “Easter Parade” and “White Christmas.”… Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow.

Philip Roth

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So [said the doctor]. Now vee may perhaps to begin Yes?

Philip Roth

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The American writer in the middle of the twentieth century has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make credible much of American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents.

Philip Roth

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