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.
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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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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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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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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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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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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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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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