When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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