California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWConquered people tend to be witty.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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