California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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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