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 BELLOWThere are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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