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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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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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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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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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
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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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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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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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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 man is only as good as what he loves.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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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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