All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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