The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning. Philip Roth More Quotes by Philip Roth More Quotes From Philip Roth You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. Philip Roth ideology people A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way. Philip Roth writing adventure book I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. Philip Roth easier novelists world It's best to give while your hand is still warm. Philip Roth stills giving hands Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not. Philip Roth knows It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces. Philip Roth real lying people Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. Philip Roth alive periods life-is Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that. Philip Roth miracle understanding too-late When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?' Philip Roth winter believe children Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. Philip Roth imagination memories past Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. Philip Roth games faces fun The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. Philip Roth pleasure persons rooms No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives. Philip Roth games sex thinking There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame. Philip Roth blame want men American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success. Philip Roth character men people There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way. Philip Roth reality way There are no uncontaminated angels Philip Roth angel Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. Philip Roth materials happens Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. Philip Roth sentences goes-on dark 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 defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life. Philip Roth real morning jobs
