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 BELLOWA good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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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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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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