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.
SAUL BELLOWYou never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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