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.
SAUL BELLOWIn 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.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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