A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOWWe are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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