1.
America's oldest communal passion,
its most subversive pleasure:
the ecstasy of sanctimony
2.
All that we don't know
is astonishing.
Even more astonishing
is what passes for knowing
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| Philip Roth born: 3/19/33 died: 5/22/18 |
The danger with hatred is,
once you start in on it,
you get one hundred times
more than
you bargained for
4.
The secret of nobody's knowing
what was going on in your head,
thinking whatever
you wanted to think
with nobody's knowing—
that's where the power
and the pleasure
are to be found
5.
A poet and a novelist
have as much in common
as a jockey
and a diesel driver
6.
Mammary Envy:
a churning longing to be
utterly and blessedly hopeless,
to be a big breathless bag of tissue,
acted upon instead of acting,
hanging there, as a breast hangs
and is there
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Footnotes
The first four quotes are from THE HUMAN STAIN
The fifth quote is from MY LIFE AS A MAN
The sixth quote is from THE BREAST
To refer to Philip Roth as an iconic American Novelist
is like referring to the sun as a big yellow ball.
Rest in peace, Mr. Roth
and give my everlasting love
to all the usual suspects.
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