Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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