Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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