Philip Roth

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

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These are some quotes by American author Philip Roth Novelist, who was born on March 19, 1933.

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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.

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

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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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