Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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