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 BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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