A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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