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.
SAUL BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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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