Quote by: Philip Roth

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.


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Author Bio


  • NamePhilip Roth
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • AliasesPhilip Milton Roth
  • BornMarch 19, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Medal Of Arts; National Humanities Medal; Franz Kafka Prize; National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize