Quotes from The Counterlife — Philip Roth
1933–2018 United States
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
The Counterlife (1986)
I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.
The Counterlife (1986)
England’s made a Jew of me in only eight weeks, which, on reflection, might be the least painful method. A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
The Counterlife (1986)