Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Philip Roth's Popular Quotes

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

- Philip Roth

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with wha…

- Philip Roth

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunc…

- Philip Roth

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

- Philip Roth

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

- Philip Roth

Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defe…

- Philip Roth

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

- Philip Roth

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

- Philip Roth

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

- Philip Roth