Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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