California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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 fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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