You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOWA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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