When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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