There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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 good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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