All Saul Bellow Quotes
- Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Distant
- Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. Collective
- 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… Argument
- There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and… Afternoon
- I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. Alone
- Live or die but don't poison everything. Death
- I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… Anywhere
- It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route. Generosity
- Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… Aristotelian
- But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work… Acoustical
- Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… Actuality
- I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag… Afflicted
- I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die,… Any
- I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his… Altogether
- A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. Fool
- The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I… Asked
- A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. Best
- I’ve had all the monstrosity I want. All
- De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… Blamed
- We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we… Accept
- Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Art
- How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? Conformity
- The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions. Cannot Make
- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. All
- The best argument is an undeniably good book. Argument