Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWWith 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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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.
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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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