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Sabbath's Theater
by
Philip Roth
United States
Born on 19 Mar 1933
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On Promise:
Nothing keeps its promise.
Sabbath's Theater
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On Lust:
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
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On Comprehension:
Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.
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Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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