We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!Philip Roth
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
Philip Roth
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
Philip Roth
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Philip Roth
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Philip Roth
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