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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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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