Philip Roth

Quotes

1. I am thirteen. At long last, not a cored apple. Not an empty milk bottle greased with vaseline, but a girl in a slip, with two tits and a cunt — and a mustache, but who am I to be picky.

2. 

   [H]er breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.

3. 

   It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?"

4. 

   Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

5. 

   A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.

6. 

   Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!

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