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Saul Bellow

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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow
Unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
Saul Bellow
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language
Saul Bellow
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow
What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
Saul Bellow
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
A man should be able to hear and to bear the worst that could be said of him.
Saul Bellow
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Saul Bellow
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it. They should, because they put it all in beforehand. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.
Saul Bellow
The secret motive of the absent minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent mindedness is spurious innocence.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow
Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow
No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.
Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Boredom is the conviction that you cant change. The shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Saul Bellow
A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.
Saul Bellow
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
Boredom is the conviction that you cant changethe shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
I think New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.
Saul Bellow

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