Parenting Quote by Saul Bellow

““Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.””

Saul Bellow

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... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

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I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedomwhich is bordered on all sides by isolationis that we think so well…

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“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay about the doorways of butcher shops and fruit stores. And the great, great crowd, the inexhaustible current of millions of every race and kind pouring out, pressing round, of every race and genius, possessors of every…

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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

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Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

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“A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.”

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The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that…

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“Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.”

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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

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“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a change that accelerated with the boom after the war. . . . There has been a surrender to pragmatism; the true is what makes you successful and the false is what makes you fail. But I…

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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

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