I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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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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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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