... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness, dull. With power, passive. With his own soul, evasive.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“She was cuckoo about dime stores, where she bought cosmetics and pins and combs. After we locked the expensive purchases in the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of "value" has been absorbed by technology itself. It is "good"… — 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
