A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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