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.
SAUL BELLOWThere are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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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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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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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