I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWWith 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.
SAUL BELLOWWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWThe 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.
SAUL BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOWWhoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOWThere 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.
SAUL BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOWThere are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWIn 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.
SAUL BELLOWCalifornia is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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