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From Quotes by Saul Bellow
- Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
- With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept…
- 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,…
- The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
- From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
- Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from…
- I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like…
- A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would…
- I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from…
- Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.
- The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you…
- Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos…
- She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
- You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
- A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's…
- Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for…
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