All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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