A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
SAUL BELLOWCalifornia is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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