Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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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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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’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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