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.
SAUL BELLOWA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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