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.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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