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I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. if they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

-Philip Roth

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I’m Interested In What People Do With

Philip Roth

I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. if they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

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If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. if not, life will just continue to push you around. people do two things. some just let life push them around. others get angry and push back. but they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. they do not know it's life that's pushing.

You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until people were ready to make use of it. the same thing happens in literary circles. the truth is, i'm not terribly interested in victorian times; i'm interested in victorian writers. i'm interested in most eras of history, but not the victorian era especially. i was interested in the john franklin expedition. i was interested in these last five weird years of dickens' life. and i just have to take the age that comes with all that when i write about it.

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