A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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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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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’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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