Philip Roth

United States
Born on 19 Mar 1933
Writer

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You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

American Pastoral
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

American Pastoral
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays