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Philip Roth was an American television and film actor.

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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

– Philip Roth

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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

– Philip Roth

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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

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

– Philip Roth

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

– Philip Roth

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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

– Philip Roth

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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

– Philip Roth

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Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

– Philip Roth

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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

– Philip Roth

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I decided that I was done with fiction, i don't want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

– Philip Roth

Found on CNN 6 years ago

I don't want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

– Philip Roth

Found on CNN 6 years ago

It's not a question that interests me. I know exactly what it means to be Jewish and it's really not interesting, i'm an American.

– Philip Roth

Found on Reuters 6 years ago

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