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.
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’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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