There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWThere are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOWIn expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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 BELLOWPsychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWYou never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOWAll a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOWWhoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOWPeople can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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 BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
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