No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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