A 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.
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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There 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.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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