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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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 good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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