I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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
-
-
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOW -
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW -
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOW -
Conquered people tend to be witty.
SAUL BELLOW -
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOW -
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW -
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOW -
I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOW -
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOW -
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOW -
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOW -
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
SAUL BELLOW -
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 BELLOW -
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW -
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW






