California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWWe are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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