A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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