Saul Bellow quotes

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow)
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. View quote
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. View quote
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. View quote
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. View quote
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A man is only as good as what he loves. (Saul Bellow)
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. View quote
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Conquered people tend to be witty. View quote
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. View quote
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. View quote
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. View quote
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. View quote
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Take our politicians they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. View quote
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. (Saul Bellow)
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. View quote
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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. View quote
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. View quote
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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. View quote
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