California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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