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.
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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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 fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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 think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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