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“Everyone thinks at some time or other that in a hundred years no one now alive will be on earth – the overwhelming force will sweep the place clean.” (Everyman Quotes)
Philip Roth
Everyman
“He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he’d feared from the start.”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy?”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“It’s a big deal for working people to buy a diamond,” he told his sons, “no matter how small. wife can wear it for the beauty and she can wear it for the status. And when she does, this guy is not just a plumber — he’s a man with a wife with a diamond. His wife owns something that is imperishable. Because beyond the beauty and the status and the value, the diamond is imperishable. A piece of the earth that is imperishable, and a mere mortal is wearing it on her hand!”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“It’s best to give while your hand is still warm.”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“Old age isn’t a battle: old age is a massacre.”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“There’s no remaking reality… Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.”
Philip Roth
Everyman
“True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it – either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.”
Philip Roth
Everyman
