A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
SAUL BELLOWThere 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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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