Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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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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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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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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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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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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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