A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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