There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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