A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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