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 BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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