I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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