A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
SAUL BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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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 fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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