No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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 think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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 are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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