California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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.
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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.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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