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Famous quotes containing the word roth:

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)

“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.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)

“Can you see it? Isn’t it beautiful? I told you.”
—Stanley Greenberg, U.S. screenwriter, and Richard Fleischer. Solomon Roth (Edward G. Robinson)