A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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 novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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 man is only as good as what he loves.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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