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.
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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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