Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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