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Total quotes: 5

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Philip Roth

Birthname

Birthday: March 19, 1933

Educated At: University Of Chicago, Bucknell University, Rutgers University, Weequahic High School

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Novelist, Essayist, University Teacher, Science Fiction Writer, Author

Religion: Atheism, Judaism

Spouse: Claire Bloom

Total quotes: 5

“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”

— Philip Roth, A quote by Philip Roth

Tagged: Ideology, Ideas, Expectations, Prejudice

“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

Tagged: Love, Love (The Concept), Love & Relationships, self

“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

Tagged: insults, Aging, Growing Up

“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, The Human Stain: A Novel

Tagged: Love, loving somebody, Love (The Concept), Love & Relationships

“Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.”

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

Tagged: Sex, Sex Is..., Philip Roth

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