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.
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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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