Saul Bellow Quotes

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• A man is only as good as what he loves.
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
• 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…
• Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
• Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
• No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
• When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
• Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
• Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
• She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
• We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
• Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
• I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
• In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
• People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
• There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
• You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
• 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…
• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
• 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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