I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOWWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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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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