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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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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 think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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 good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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