Philip Roth Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

  Philip Roth

  Silence, Mind, Literature

• Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

  Philip Roth

  Self, Silence, Mind

  Philip Roth (1993). “Operation Shylock: A Confession”

• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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