There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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 man is only as good as what he loves.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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