A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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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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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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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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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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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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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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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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
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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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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 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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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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