Sabbath's Theater

by Philip Roth
United States
Born on 19 Mar 1933
Writer

Quotes



Nothing keeps its promise.

Sabbath's Theater
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

Sabbath's Theater
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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Philip Roth

 

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