A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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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’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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