A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOWPsychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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.
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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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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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