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 BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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