No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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 man is only as good as what he loves.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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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.
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