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.
SAUL BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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