A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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