Philip Roth: Frasi in inglese

Philip Roth era scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others”

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Philip Roth libro Il complotto contro l'America

Origine: The Plot Against America

“You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.”

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Philip Roth libro Indignazione

Origine: Indignation

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”

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“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

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Philip Roth libro Lamento di Portnoy

Origine: Portnoy's Complaint

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

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Philip Roth libro La macchia umana

Origine: The Human Stain

“I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.”

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Philip Roth libro Lamento di Portnoy

Origine: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

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Philip Roth libro Everyman

Origine: Everyman (2006)

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”

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“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.”

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Philip Roth libro Everyman

Origine: Everyman

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

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As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1

“Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid”

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Philip Roth libro Lamento di Portnoy

Origine: Portnoy's Complaint

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

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Philip Roth libro Pastorale americana

Origine: American Pastoral

“I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface”

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Philip Roth libro Pastorale americana

Origine: American Pastoral

“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”

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Philip Roth libro Lo scrittore fantasma

Origine: The Ghost Writer