A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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