A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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