I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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