Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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