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Thinking Quotes by Saul Bellow
- I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
- 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…
- One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.…
- There is simply too much to think about.
- Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American…
- I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and…
- Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
- I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when…
- In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing.…
- I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
- I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and…
- In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions.…
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