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“No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you’re not superior to sex. It’s a very risky game. It’s sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.” (The Dying Animal Quotes)
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“Now, I’m very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody’s defenseless against something, and that’s it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“The loveliest fairy tale of childhood is that everything happens in order.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“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
“To those not yet old, being old means you’ve been. But being old also means that despite, in addition to, and in excess of your beenness, you still are. Your beenness is very much alive. You still are, and one is as haunted by the still-being and its fullness as by the having-already-been, by the pastness. Think of old age this way: it’s just an everyday fact that one’s life is at stake.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“Who are the new people when you do meet them? They’re the same old people in masks. There’s nothing new about them at all. They’re people.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
“You tasted it. Isn’t that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That’s all we’re given in life, that’s all we’re given of life. A taste. There is no more.”
Philip Roth
The Dying Animal
