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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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 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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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