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Eigene und fremde Bücher, wiedergelesen (Broschiert) by Philip Roth bookshelves: currently-reading |
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12/06
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Das Leben ist anderswo. (Paperback) by Milan Kundera bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover) by Chip Heath bookshelves: to-read |
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| April 23 | ||
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gave Mein Leben als Mann (Broschiert) by Philip Roth |
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| January 31 | ||
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Zwischen den Fronten. Erlebte Weltgeschichte (Gebundene Ausgabe) by Peter Scholl-Latour bookshelves: to-read |
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| December 06, 2008 | ||
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Das Leben ist anderswo. (Paperback) by Milan Kundera bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| November 04, 2008 | ||
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"'Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.'" — Philip Roth | |
"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman
— Neil Gaiman
"I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered."
— Philip Roth
— Philip Roth
"The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. "
— Philip Roth (The Dying Animal)
— Philip Roth (The Dying Animal)
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"These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my
status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery."
— Philip Roth (The Dying Animal)
status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery."
— Philip Roth (The Dying Animal)
"I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again..."
— Philip Roth (Ghost Writer)
— Philip Roth (Ghost Writer)
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