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.
SAUL BELLOWA fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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