...they'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown--not even he was that dreadful a novelist.
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PHILIP ROTH History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
PHILIP ROTH I was back in touch with my place,
PHILIP ROTH It's an admission of the books into perpetuity.
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PHILIP ROTH There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market.
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PHILIP ROTH You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washe...
PHILIP ROTH Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
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PHILIP ROTH Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a k...
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PHILIP ROTH My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you...
PHILIP ROTH These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for th...
PHILIP ROTH You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is g...
PHILIP ROTH Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century,
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PHILIP ROTH Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
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PHILIP ROTH Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of i...
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PHILIP ROTH La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.
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PHILIP ROTH You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
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ADAM ROTH That's going to change, and a big part of that change will be the Interstate 355 expansion scheduled...
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VERONICA ROTH Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
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VERONICA ROTH A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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VERONICA ROTH Some things are hard to let go of.
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VERONICA ROTH Can you be a girl for a few seconds?"
"I'm always a girl" I frown.
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VERONICA ROTH You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re tr...
VERONICA ROTH We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...
VERONICA ROTH What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear m...
VERONICA ROTH Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and ho...
VERONICA ROTH I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...
VERONICA ROTH Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or t...
VERONICA ROTH I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and l...
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VERONICA ROTH . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to b...
GENEEN ROTH When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
GENEEN ROTH You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are...
GENEEN ROTH Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...
VERONICA ROTH I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
VERONICA ROTH If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
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VERONICA ROTH Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific ta...
ELI ROTH I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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VERONICA ROTH Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
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that she is go...
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VERONICA ROTH It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, t...
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VERONICA ROTH Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
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VERONICA ROTH I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
VERONICA ROTH Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"
I r...
VERONICA ROTH The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
VERONICA ROTH If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH The person you became with her is worth being.
VERONICA ROTH Change, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTH You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I t...
VERONICA ROTH I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
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VERONICA ROTH I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t...
ELI ROTH Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge...
ELI ROTH You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ...
TIM ROTH 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I...
ELI ROTH In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
VERONICA ROTH I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...
VERONICA ROTH Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
VERONICA ROTH For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, han...
VERONICA ROTH People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a g...
VERONICA ROTH You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don...
VERONICA ROTH One Choice
One Choice, decided your friends.
One Choice, defines your beliefs....
VERONICA ROTH Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
VERONICA ROTH You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"...
VERONICA ROTH I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understa...
VERONICA ROTH Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into pl...
VERONICA ROTH Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
VERONICA ROTH Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"
"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
VERONICA ROTH Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
VERONICA ROTH I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I...
VERONICA ROTH It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
VERONICA ROTH Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
VERONICA ROTH You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you'...
VERONICA ROTH I am selfish. I am brave.
VERONICA ROTH Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTH Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'
'Well,' he says, 'I would onl...
VERONICA ROTH I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
VERONICA ROTH Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in ...
VERONICA ROTH I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
VERONICA ROTH The opinions of others cannot damage you.
VERONICA ROTH It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
VERONICA ROTH Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that dama...
VERONICA ROTH She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recogniz...
VERONICA ROTH The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have n...
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