When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWCalifornia is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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