In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOWHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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