No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOWGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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