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 BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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