Quotes from Philip Roth

Çünkü herkes gibi onun da ba??na gelecek. Çünkü hayat?n en rahats?z edici gücü, ölümdür. Çünkü ölüm çok adaletsizdir. Çünkü insan bir defa yaÅŸam?n tad?na var?nca ölüm dahi gözükmez ona...

Do you believe Shakespeare's Shylock and Dickens's Fagin have been of no use to anti-Semites?

In her laugh was the admission of her captivity: to Norman, to menopause, to work, to aging, to everything that could only deteriorate further.

Hi, my name is Mitchell. I'm an alcoholic.' 'Hi, I'm Flora. I'm cross-addicted.'" "Cross-addicted?" Sabbath asked. "Who knows—some Catholic thing.

He does not glorify the state at the expense of the individual but, to the contrary, encourages entrepreneurial individualism and a free enterprise system unencumbered by interference from the federal government. Where is the fascist statism? Where is the fascist thuggery?

It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At

she was fifty-five and seared with hot flashes, and her daughter's was now the female form exuding the magnetic currents.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the manias of lust.

Era estranho pensar, ali no meio de todos os colegas de Coleman, que pessoas tão instruídas, tão imbuídas de uma civilidade profissional, houvessem embarcado com tanto entusiasmo no venerável sonho humano de uma situação em que um único homem se torna a própria encarnação do mal. No entanto, essa necessidade existe, é eterna e profunda.

If you don't go crazy because of your husband's vices, you go crazy because of his virtues.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

Rimane il fatto che, in ogni modo, capire la gente non è vivere. Vivere è capirla male, capirla male e male e poi male e, dopo un attento riesame, ancora male. Ecco come sappiamo di essere vivi: sbagliando. Forse la cosa migliore sarebbe dimenticare di aver ragione o torto sulla gente e godersi semplicemente la gita. Ma se ci riuscite... Beh, siete fortunati.

I know what a plantation is, Mr. Legree—I mean, Mr. Levov. I know what it means to run a plantation. You take good care of your niggers. Of course you do. It's called paternal capitalism. You own 'em, you sleep with 'em, and when you're finished with 'em you toss 'em out. Lynch 'em only when necessary.

Makarska and Madamaska.

Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura.

L'incanto irresistibile che continuiamo a esercitare, fino alla fine, con la superficie del nostro corpo […] si dimostra la cosa più seria che c'è nella vita. Il corpo, del quale uno non si può spogliare per quanti sforzi faccia, del quale è impossibile liberarsi fino alla morte.

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

Nunca más iremos como corderos al matadero», bramaban los altavoces, desde todas las esquinas.

Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort to be sincere, the worse it went.

No aceptaría la tiranía del nosotros, la cháchara del nosotros y todo lo que el nosotros quiere volcarte encima.

You would have thought, listening to my bowdlerized version of what was a tepid enough little life history, that rather than having received a warm and gracious letter from the famous writer inviting me to come and spend a pleasant evening in his house, I had made this journey to plead a matter of utmost personal urgency before the most stringent of inquisitors, and that if I made one wrong move, something of immeasurable value to me would be lost forever.

am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. [Boo.] I believe this government was made on a white basis. [Boo.] I believe it was made for white men [Boo], for the benefit of white men [Boo], and their posterity for ever. [Boo.] I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men . . . instead of conferring it upon Negroes, Indians, and other inferior races. [Boo. Boo. Boo.]" Something

Pensava gli stessi pensieri, inutili per un uomo di non grande talento come lui, se non per Sofocle: la casualità con cui si forma un destino... E come tutto può sembrare accidentale, quando è inevitabile.

SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 1941. Delivers his "Who Are the War Agitators?" radio speech to an America First rally in Des Moines on September 11; audience of eight thousand cheers when he names "the Jewish race" as among those most powerful and effective in pushing the U.S.—"for reasons which are not American"—toward involvement in the war.