More From Philip Roth
- "Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."
- "People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun."
- "Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts."
More In History
- "While history never repeats itself, political patterns do."― Eric Alterman
- "To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."― Morris Raphael Cohen
- "The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."― David Hume