I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOWIn 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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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