You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. - Philip Roth
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
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…
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
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…
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you. - Philip Roth
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. - Philip Roth
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. - Philip Roth
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. - Philip Roth
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
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
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…
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
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.
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