People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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 man is only as good as what he loves.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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With 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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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 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 are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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