All Saul Bellow Quotes
- Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his… All
- O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. All
- The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your… Bitter
- Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. Art
- The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. Achieve
- I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. Achievement
- The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. Art
- Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. Arrest
- The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human… Becoming
- A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. Choice
- I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely.… Answering
- I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,… Beautifully
- I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. Acceptance
- I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. Fig
- Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything Backing
- If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools. Age
- I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the… Afraid
- Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing… America
- ...there is no old age of the soul. Age
- ...I am much better now at ambiguities. Ambiguities
- ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… Advantage
- It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent. Consistency
- ...chaos doesn't run the whole show. Chaos
- ...is the carbon molecule lined with thought? Carbon
- Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. Alternatives