The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.Philip Roth
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market.
Philip Roth
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
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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!
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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.
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