All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW- 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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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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOWYou never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOWGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
SAUL BELLOWConquered people tend to be witty.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
SAUL BELLOWA fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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.
SAUL BELLOWThere 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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What is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOWWhoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOWHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody 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 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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
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