Philip Roth Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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