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 BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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 great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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