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.
SAUL BELLOWIn expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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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 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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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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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 great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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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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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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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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