All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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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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