Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWThere 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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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 fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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