A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

- Joseph Roth

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of soc…

- Joseph Roth

Only the small things in life are important

- Joseph Roth

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with…

- Joseph Roth

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

- Joseph Roth

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

- Joseph Roth

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shop…

- Joseph Roth

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everyt…

- Joseph Roth

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

- Joseph Roth