I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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