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 BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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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 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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