California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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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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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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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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