A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWYou never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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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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