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Philip Roth Quotes

"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.""Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.""Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.""A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.""Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?""The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."