I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWWhoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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