Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOWWhoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWIn 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.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWPsychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
SAUL BELLOWA fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
SAUL BELLOWShe was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOWAll a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOWA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOWGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
SAUL BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
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