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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

~Philip Roth

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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

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People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

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As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 19th, 1933

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