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.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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 think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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