California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWCalifornia is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWIn 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 BELLOWThere 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 BELLOWThe 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 BELLOWShe was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOWWe are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
SAUL BELLOWAll a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWIn expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOWA good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
SAUL BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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.
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