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 BELLOWIf women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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 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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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