A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWAll a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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