Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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