A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOW
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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