You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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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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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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