“The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And then? I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we all are put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
