A man is only as good as what he loves.
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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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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