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Philip Roth quotes about good

American Novelist June 24, 1943

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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love! Philip Roth
Philip Roth quote: "You've got a good girl this time. Don't screw it up. Don't let..."
You've got a good girl this time. Don't screw it up. Don't let her go. Philip Roth
Philip Roth quote: "Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a..."
Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy tillthey die! Philip Roth
I would quit while you’re ahead. Really. It’s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it’s not any good. I would say just stop now. You don’t want to do this to yourself. That’s my advice to you. Philip Roth

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