A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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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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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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