A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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