This is called a piqué machine, it sews that finest stitch, called piqué, requires far more skill than the other stitches.... This is called a polishing machine and that is called a stretcher and you are called honey and I am called Daddy and this is called living and the other is called dying and this is called madness and this is called mourning and this is called hell, pure hell, and you have to have strong ties to be able to stick it out, this is called trying-to-go-on-as-though-nothing-has-happened and this is called paying-the-full-price-but-in-God's-name-for-what, this is called wanting-to-be-dead-and-wanting-to-find-her-and-to-kill-her-and-to-save-her-from-whatever-she-is-going-through-wherever-on-earth-she-may-be-at-this-moment, this unbridled outpouring is called blotting-out-everything and it does not work, I am half insane, the shattering force of that bomb is too great ... And then they were back at his office again.
Philip RothA culpa em alguém como Bucky pode parecer absurda, porém é, de fato, inevitável. Uma pessoa como ele está condenada. Jamais irá corresponder ao ideal que carrega dentro de si. Nunca sabe onde termina sua responsabilidade. Jamais aceita seus limites porque, sobrecarregado com uma severa bondade natural que não lhe permite resignar-se ao sofrimento dos outros, nunca admitirá , sem se sentir culpado, que possa estar sujeito a alguma limitação
Philip RothWhat do you do with the kid who can't read? ...Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them--so Coleman believed more often than not.
Philip Roth...devi fare solo questo, presentare una buona e coerente versione di te stesso, e nessuno verrà mai a farti domande.
Philip RothΌλοι οι άλλοι κάθονταν εκεί καταθλιπτικά σιωπηλοί, σε εσωτερική υπερένταση, προβάροντας κατά μόνας -στο λεξιλόγιο της λαϊκής ψυχολογίας ή της περιθωριακής αισχρολογίας, της χριστιανικής οδύνης ή της παρανοϊκής παθολογίας- τα πανάρχαια θέματα της δραματικής λογοτεχνίας: αιμομιξία, προδοσία, αδικία, σκληρότητα, ζήλεια, ανταγωνισμός, επιθυμία, απώλεια, ατίμωση και πένθος.
Philip RothEverybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself
Philip RothTags: intelligence insight loyalty know-thyself social-intelligence
I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste.
Philip RothTags: truth
Αγκάστηκα να σωπάσω για λίγο, για να ξαναβρώ τη φωνή μου και να συνέλθω από τα λόγια της που με είχαν ξαναγυρίσει στην κατάσταση του νηπίου, η οποία δεν είναι τίποτε άλλο από την ανάγκη για αδιάκοπη γαλούχηση
Philip RothNothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.
Philip RothIl m'arrivait aussi, à l'occasion, d'être accosté dans les rues de New York par des inconnus qui se lançaient dans une rencontre orageuse avec moi à cause de quelque chose dans mes romans qui les séduisait ou qui les exaspérait, ou qui les séduisait parce que cela les exaspérait, ou qui les exaspérait parce que cela les séduisait.
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