I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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