All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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