#y

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ↗

— Philip Roth

#awake #history #i #i am #nightmare

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

#driven #help #him #his #needs

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

#downside #fear #gradually #greed #itself

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

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

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

#decide #dim #fiction #i #i write

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

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

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

#experience #facts #formed #imagination #imaginings

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. ↗

— Philip Roth

#closest friends #deadly #friends #seriousness #sheer

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No. ↗

— Philip Roth

#profits #protect #run #should #yes

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. ↗

— Philip Roth

#fond #inordinately #subordination #unless #war