California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWA good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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