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.
SAUL BELLOWConquered people tend to be witty.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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