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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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