Philip Roth Quotes about Reality

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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.

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.

Philip Roth

Reality, Way

Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, Random House Large Print Publishing

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

Philip Roth

Writing, Reality, America

"Military Secrets" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

Philip Roth

Reality, Kitchen, Tables

Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Philip Roth Quotes about Reality

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