A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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 fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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