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We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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

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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
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